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WE HAVE sought to gather in one volume some of the best Bible 
Readings which, from time to time, have appeared in the press, 
together with a large number kindly furnished by their authors. We 
have been obliged, for the sake of brevity, to omit, in many, much 
which might profitably have been given, and confined ourselves to the 
titles, topics, divisions and Scripture references. 

The selections have been made to cover as large a range of subjects 
as possible, and give diversity of arrangement rather than exhaustive 
treatment. It is hoped they may be useful in preparation for gospel 
services and an especial incentive to the personal study of the Bible. 

" God's Word is a world in itself — vast and full of variety. It is 
resplendent with truths that shine like stars in the heavens. A uni- 
verse of truth is brought before us in this one great voiume. We should 
study the Bible as spiritually-minded searchers after spiritucih strength ; 
as invalids searching for health ; as the Jewish refugee sought the 
refuge city ; as the lost and hungry child seeks its mother ; as the mother 
seeks her lost child — -patiently, hungrily, perseveringly, prayerfully, 
with head and hand and heart, in winter and in summer. They who 
thus search the words of revelation to find what there is in them to 
feed thought and afiection, and to strengthen life — lo ! all such are 
sure to find." * 



*Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D., in *' Biblical Exploration.' 



IV. PREFACE. 

The following from a Normal Class Exercise, by Rev. W. F. Crafts, 
given at the Sunday School Parliament, is a suggestive epitome of the 
subject of this work : 

TOPICAL BIBLE READINGS. 

I. Bible precedents. — Luke xxiv. 47; Neh. viii. 1-8. 

ir. Topics. — Miracles, Prayers, Conversion, Regeneration, Blood, Grace, 
Little Things, Refuge, Promises, &c. From Bible Text Book, 
Concordance, '^ Bible Emblems," &c. 

III. Where used. — \. Social Meetings; 2. Evangelistic Services; 3. In- 
troductory to Sermon; 4. In place of Sermon ; 5. Introductory 
to Sunday School Lesson; 6. Developing Sunday School Lesson; 

7. Reviewing Sunday School Lesson ; 8. Teachers' Meetings ; 
9. Family Altar ; 10. Private Devotions. 

lY. How used. — 1. Audience read passages from slips ; 2. Selected 
persons read passages from slips ; 3. Persons on platform read 
passages from slips ; 4. Two persons on platform read alternately 
for the leader of the exercise ; 5. Interspersed with songs : 
6. Leader reads all the passages ; 7. Brief expositions and illus- 
trations ; 8. Reading all passages before the theme is discussed ; 
9. Making clear and definite points; 10. With prayer and 
earnestness, Acts viii. 32, 33. 

Y. How abused.— \. Too many passages; 2. Ill chosen passages; 
3. Poor reading ; 4. Too much or too little illustration ; 5, Lack 
of point ; 6. Covering too wide a field ; 7. Want of unity ; 

8. Unwarranted interpretation of Scripture. 

The Bible Studies will be useful in private study of the Word, and 
as a basis in the preparation of Bible Readings. They are Bible Read- 



PREFACE. V. 

ings ''in the rough," to be studied, reduced in number of passages and 
arranged. 

We are aware that many imperfections will be found in the book. 
While the collecting of the material has been the work of several 
months, the editing has come upon us in the midst of removal to a new 
and arduous field of service. We trust that our labor, which has, from 
first to last been a labor of love, will not be in vain, but that our little 
volume may become an aid to some in the study and use of the Word 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Bible Ebadings— How to Pbbpabe and How to Use Them. - D. W. Whittle. 3 

Bible Readings and Bible Marking. - . . . Rev. Joseph Cook. 7 

The Bible WITH Inquirers. ----- Rev. George A. Hall. 10 

Questions and Hints for Young Christians. ----- 16 

How I use the Bible with Christian Workers. - - Rev. James H. Rrookes. 20 

How to Study the Bible. ------ ^ra. Hind Smith. 24 

The Layman's Bible, and How to Use it. - - - - - Ralph WelU, 26 

Reading the Bible with Relish. - * - - - Rev. W. F. Crafts. 31 

Watkins Glen Conference. - - - - - - - G. L. Bonta. 34 

Song Service, - - - - - - - - - ^ - 39 

Grace. - - - - - - - - - - - D. L. Moody. 42 

Bible Readings. - - - . - - _ - __ 48 

Bible Studies. --_..-_.- 117 

Fo» Alphabetical Index see close of Book. 



• BIBLE READINGS. 



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BY D. "W. WHITTLE. 

Isfc. How prepared : — 

Select some topic of doctrine or exhortation as to Christian living, 
practical in the application, and exalting Christ. Among such subjects 
will readily occur Grace, Love, Faith, Redemption, San ctih cation, the 
Blood, Prayer, the Two Natures, the New Birth, Work, Warfare, and 
so on. Take the concordance and read, with prayer, all the passages 
bearing upon the topic selected. Get full yourself of the truth taught. 
Praise God by yourself and for yourself for its preciousness. Then 
divide your topic into heads, according to its natural and logical 
divisions. This is the key to the preparation of an interesting, profit- 
able, and instructive reading. The bringing together of passages in a 
jumble, selecting them because they all contain the same word, cannot 
interest or profit. There must be order and a development of thought 
in the exhortation or doctrine for the mind to receive and profit by it. 

The reading given is presented as suggesting this plan, not as the 
best execution of it. 

Be careful in not making the reading too long. Better to divide 
your topic into five or six readings, and bring out the Scriptures upon 
each head to your own satisfaction, than to crowd too many heads into 



4 BIBLE READINGS. 

one reading. You will find the instruction thus given more easily 
apprehended and more carefully retained. The fault with most of us 
lay workers, who have been uninstructed in logical presentation of truth, 
is in the beginning of our work to make our readings too cumbersome. 
My first Bible reading on Faith contained some sixty Scripture refer- 
ences. Before they were all read the audience were tired, and it was a 
source of anxiety and difficulty for me to interest them. That same 
Bible reading prepared for one meeting has now developed into seven, 
given as a course, at seven successive meetings, with seeming interest 
and appreciation on the part of the people, and pleasure to myself. 

I have used for this reading, and for others, as a matter of conven- 
ience, the Scripture suggestion of the number seve7i^ in making up the 
heads of the topics. For instance, upon Faith the order of the readings 
and their divisions is as follows : 

1st. Seven reasons for reasonableness of Faith (all Scripture texts). 

2d. Seven doctrines as to how Faith is received. 

3d. Seven things possessed by Faith. 

4th. Seven fruits of Faith. 

5th. Seven trials of Faith. 

6th. Seven things said of those without Faith. 

7th. Seven triumphs of Faith. 

Two or three Scripture references are used under each head, making 
each reading consist of between twenty and twenty-five texts. 

It will, of course, be understood that this sub-division and elabora- 
tion is recommended only for those topics that, in the nature of the 
case, by the wide scope of truth embraced by them, require it. More 
simple topics would be better treated condensed into one reading. 

After your Scripture texts are arranged, endeavor under each one 
A your licadings to have one or more appropriate illustrations, to make 
clear the truth and fasten it in the memory. 



HOW TO PREPARE AND USE. 5 

2d. How to give Bible Readings : — 

The method should vary with the character of the audience and the 
circumstances and surroundings of the meeting. In a very large audi- 
ence it is better to read the passages yourself, asking the audience to 
turn to them and all join with you in the reading. Give time for all 
to turn to the passages, and read slow and distinct enough for all to 
join. Pay much attention to emphasis in reading. The proper inter- 
pretation of the text will often be revealed by proper emphasizing of 
the words. 

In a small audience, in a lecture room where persons reading in 
different parts of the room can be readily heard, give out your references 
— one text to a person, if you have good readers enough, if not, two or 
more texts to the same person. Use slips of paper in giving out the 
references. Have them prepared before you go to the meeting, and ask 
some one who is acquainted with the audience to distribute them to 
good readers, as you are singing the opening hymn, or (this is far better) 
before you commence the exercises. 

It is not safe to call out references and let them be taken by 
volunteers. Some will have wrong passages, and some will not read 
distinctly. The slips will also give you trouble unless the pei'son giving 
theoi out is judicious, and makes each one who receives a slip under- 
stand that they are to read the passage promptly when called for. It 
is best for the leader, also, as he opens the meeting, to distinctly explain 
what he expects of those who have received slips, and to request them 
if they do not intend to comply, to pass the slip back. 

After calling for a reference twice, with slight interval, the leader 
had better read himself, not delaying the audience for those who have 
lost the place. 

Let the Word stand out clear and speak for itself. Simply call 
attention to the obvious truth each reference presents, and its connection 
and place in the subject you are developing. Have faith in the presence 



b BIBLE READINGS. 

of the Holy Spirit as the teacher. Have confidence in the power of the 
Word to do its own work. Be humble in the advancement of your 
interpretation of the text, and always fortify your interpretation, not 
by quoting human authority, but the Word itself. Kemember James 
iii. 1 : " My brethren, be not many teachers^ knowing that we shall 
receive the greater condemnation." The less of oiti' thought and our 
ideas in the reading, the more profitable it will be to us and to all. 

For fitness in giving Bible Beadings, and for all Christian work, 
careful reading of the following Scriptures is suggested : 

FURNISHED FOB WOBK. 

Text— 1 Tim. iv. 12-16. 

Clfiaracter before loork. — 12th verse. "Example of believers in Word, Life, Love, 

Spirit, Truth, Purity." Titus i. 7-9; xi. 11-15; 1 Thess. iv. 1; 2 Cor. vi. 3, 4. 
Reading, as in 13th verse. — 2 Tim. iii. 15-17; Rom. xv. 4; John v. 39. 
Following Reading (i. e., study drawing from the Scriptures, for ourselves, the 

truth), then Exhortation^ the apphcation of the truth. Titus i. 9; Heb. iii. 

13; 2 Thess. iii. 12. 
Doctrine. — Intelligent exhortation, based upon a proper reading, will recognize 

doctrine, and no relation of experience is profitable that is not in accord with 

sound doctrine. Rom. vi. 17 ; 2 Tim. iv. 3 ; Titus ii. 7 ; 2 John 9 ; Acts 

ii. 42. 
Diligence.— Uth verse : '* Neglect Not." 2 Tim. iv. 2, 5 ; 1 Thess. i. 8 ; 2 Cor. 

xi. 26 ; Eccl. xi. 6. 
Honor the Holy Ghost. — 14th verse: ''The gift that is in tbee," ** which was 

given thee." 1 Cor. xii. 3; Acts xix. 2, 6; John xiv. 16, 17. 
Consecration. — 15th verse : ''Give thyself wholly to them." Rom. xii. 1 ; 1 Cor. 

vi. 19, 20. 
Watchfulness.— Wth verse : "Take heed." Luke xxi. 36 ; Mark xiii. 33-37. 
Perseverance. — " Continue in them." John xv. 4; Heb. vi. 11, 12, x. 35-37. The 

last references bringing us back to the introduction of the text, as enforcing 

every admonition : "Till I Come." See 2 Tim. iv. 9, with 1 Tim. iii. 14, 15. 



)ttib l|^abttt9$ mh ^ihh Harking. 



BT REV. JOSEPH COOK. 



The Spaniards have a proverb which says : *' An ounce of mother 
is worth a pound of clergy." An ounce of conduct is woi*th a ton of 
reading. An ounce of self-surrender to truth already possessed is worth 
a planet's weight of truth not transmuted into deeds. Nevertheless, it 
is so important to give attention to select reading in the hushed mood 
of spiritual sensitiveness, which is the only interpreter of souls in 
print, that, perhaps it is timely now to recite a list of illumined, 
cheerful, incisive, stalwart books, which may be useful to those who 
lately have entered a Christian life, and some of which may become, not 
only food, but muscle. Let us always remember that mental and 
spiritual food without work are not transformed into nerve and muscle^ 
and it is these you want, and not merely food. Work after food makes 
strength ; and food without work makes — what shall we say ? — a pleth- 
oric, over-fed, luxurious, uneasy Christianity, an object of pity to gods 
and men. 

What you want, of course, is first the Bible really understood — that 
is, acted out. How much do you know of Shakspeare until after you 
are forty years of agel Until a man has surrendered himself to God 
he cannot be said to appreciate the Bible, or any great merely human 
production. Let a poet like Milton, or Shakspeare, or Dante, make a 
painting of the inner sky in man, and he will put into it light and 



8 BIBLE READINGS 

shade almost as strongly contrasted as the light and shade of Christian- 
ity. If there is not the Sun of the Atonement in it, there will be there 
the chariot of that Sun — a fathomless desire for peace with God and 
with the irreversible record of the past. But how can you understand 
great poetry of the secular sort until you have lived it, and multitudin- 
ous rifting experiences have opened your heart '? Nevertheless, even 
with a heart untutored by fullness of life, it is better for you -to read 
great poetry than third-rate poetry — the light fiddling of the charlatans, 
who sing the anthem of the stars as if it were a dancing tune, and make 
a painting of the sky without the sun in it, or moon, or light, or shade, 
or much of anything else. It is best for you in studying what is great- 
est in the results of human imagination, to avoid mercilessly all second- 
rate matter, however good ; and so, in feeding your devotional life, it is 
best for you to avoid Bunyan and Jeremy Taylor and Baxter and Mar- 
tineau and Pascal and Bushnell and Thomas a Kempis himself, if these 
books shut out the Bible from daily and almost hourly use. The Ger- 
mans have a proverb, that '^ the better is a great enemy of the best," 
and these richest of the devotional works are a mischief if they hinder 
you from taking the Bible as your supreme inspirer in life, as it will 
undoubtedly be your supreme solace in death. 

Do you know a hook that you are willing to put under your head for 
a pillow when you lie dying ? Very well ; that is the book you want to 
study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world. 
For one, I have not made up my mind to put under my head when I 
lie dying, anything written by Yoltaire, or Strauss, or Parker. We 
are to be scientifically careful when we choose a book for a dying pil- 
low. If you can tell me what you want for a dying pillow, I will tell 
you what you want for a pillar of fire in life — that is, the Bible, spirit- 
ually and scientifically understood by being transmuted into deeds. 
Sentiment is worth nothing until it becomes principle, and principle is 
worth nothing until it becomes action. 



AND BIBLE MARKING. 9 

I hold in my hand a publicntion entitled, "Hints on Bible Marking ^^ 
by an English authoress, Mrs. Menzies. Undoubtedly it is known by 
all scholars here ; and I am speaking to-day, or any day, to gentle- 
men in whose presence I ought to be dumb. But there are younger 
persons here and elsewhere who may be benefited by this pamphlet, 
approved by our American evangelist, who perhaps has not referred to 
this best production on this topic because his own name is coimected 
with it. I would not have even this method adopted by any one to 
the hindrance of originality in the invention of your own method of 
marking. You ought to mark a Bible every five years so thoroughly that 
you cannot use it any mo7'e. May I whisper that I have a Bible marked 
when I was about fourteen or seventeen years of age, and had just 
united with the church, and that to-day it is the most unspeakable 
record on which I can put my hand in my little past ! If, every five 
years, you can mark a Bible thoroughly, and memorize what is marked, 
it will be your best diary. You can do little better in reading than to 
fill the margins of a copy of the Scriptures, once every five years, full of 
the records of the deepest inmost in your souls, to be intelligible to 
yourself, and to no one else. Shut the door on that record. Enter 
into your closet and keep your secrets with Almighty God. 

At a trial in Salem, Webster said about the argument of his oppo- 
nent : ^^ Gentlemen of the jury, this man neither alights nor flies for- 
ward. He hovers. Why does he not meet the case?" Our age is full 
of readers and students who are mere hoverers, who neither fly forward 
nor alight, and who think the highest philosophical glory is in never 
coming to a conclusion. Have you seen these winged, unresting spirit- 
ual creatures 1 Reading is of small account unless it is thought to be 
of no account in comparison with that style of action which makes 
obedience to truth an organ of spiritual knowledge. 



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A very large number of persons are to be found who have been at 
some time among the anxious, and yet have never accepted the Lord 
Jesus and become his followers. It is to be feared that many of these 
have been wanderers for long years, because of vague and indefinite 
ideas as to the Christian life, and the entrance into it. 

Two errors are common, and are to be avoided. 

1st. That intense mental anguish must precede the reception of 
Christ as a Savior, and until the soul is able to realize all this anguish 
there can be no genuine repentance. 

2nd. The idea that it is a very small thing to become a Christian, 
and only needs a moment^s wish and all is done. 

Let us show that both are errors, the one because within the lids of 
the Bible no demand is made for a certain amount of emotion, but 
simply an honest desire to forsake the past way of living, because of a 
consciousness that it has displeased God, Is. Iv. 7, and that to become 
a Christian means an entire and complete renunciation of the old man 
and becoming a new creature, and while it may be accomplished in a 
moment, it is only when the soul has become ready to forsake all and 
receive the Lord Jesus alone, that it can be born again. 

It is needless to enlarge upon this subject, so much has been written, 
but I have collated some suggestions given by dijfferent workers, especi- 
ally Mr. Moody, as to our dealing with inquirers, and the texts of 
Scripture mentioned for difi'erent classes. 

10 



BlBLi: READINGS. 11 

HINTS. 

Seek to ascertain first the exact spiritual condition of each inquirer. 

Present the Scriptural truths suited to the case ; a few appropriate 
texts are better than many indiscriminately chosen. 

What is a help to one is a hindrance to another. 

Use tact in approaching inquirers, judgment in dealing with them, 
and God's Word as the only remedy. 

Always carry your Bible into the inquiry room, and use the printed 
page, appealing to the eye as well as to the ear. 

There are passages in the Bible suited to every case, and be ready 
to meet every objection with " Thus saith the Lord." 

The three important steps : — 
Man ruined by the fall. 

Man saved by the blood. 

Man regenerated by the Spirit. 

Become so familiar with the accompanying, or similar passages, that 
you may not only readily turn to them in your Bible, but be able wisely 
to explain and enforce them. 

To every sinner show Christ to be the only and all-sufficient Savior. 

In conversation, be deeply in earnest, but avoid excitement. 

Affectionately urge prompt decision. 

Ponder over the following passages until thoroughly imbued with 
their spirit : Matt. xxi. 28 ; Eph. vi. 17 ; 2 Cor. vi. 1 ; 2 Cor. v. 14 ; 
Luke xviii. 27; Matt. xxviiL 20 ; Kom. viii. 26 ; Psalm cxxvi. 6. 

HELPFUL PASSAGES FOE DIFFERENT CLASSES 
OF SEEKKRS. 

The professing Christian who has no liberty, no assurance, is in ^^ Doubting CaHle^ 

— The whole of John's first epistle was written for such. Use 1 John v. 13 ; 

iii. 2, 14, 24. 
For Backsliders.— Jeremiah ii, 5, 13, 19, 27, 32 ; iii. 12, 13, 14, 22 ; Hosea xiv. 1, 

2, 4. Examples of backsliders reclaimed^ — David, Peter, Thomas, and all the 

disciples. 



12 THE BIBLE WITH INQUIRERS. 

For the Slightly Convicted. — Romans iii. 10, 12, 23 ; Romans vii, 24; 1 Johni. 10; 
Kccles. vii. 20 ; Isa. i. 5, 6 ; liii. 6 ; Psalm cxliii. 2 ; Acts xiii. 39 ; Gal. ii. 16 ; 
Eph. ii. 8, 9. Avoid speaking false peace. Don't tell a man he is converted 
— let God tell him that. See Jeremiah vi. 14. 

For those who think themselves too g7'eat sinners. — They are under deep conviction. 
Use Isa. i. 18 ; liii. 4, 5 ; 2 Peter ii. 24; Isa. xliii. 25; xliv. 22 ; Rom. v. 6 ; 
Matthew xviii. ll ; ix. 12. 

For those loho want to hioio how to believe.^— Th^y must receive a person, not a 
creed : John i. 11, 12. They must believe: John iii. 15, 16, 18, 36 ; v. 24 ; 
vi. 47. They must trust : Isaiah xxvi. 3; Psa. xxxiv. 8. They must take a 
gift : Rev. xxii. 17 ; Psalm cxvi. 13; Romans vi. 23. They must come : John 
vi. 37 ; Isa. Iv. 1. Results of believing : Joy — John xv. 11 ; Rest — John xi. 
28 ; Peace— John xiv. 27. 

Another class don't feel that they are saved. — Nowhere in the Bible is feeling 
coupled with salvation. 

Those who go away trusting, and come hack doubting. — They have neglected to 

confess Christ. Use Rom. iv. 9, 10; Matt. x. 32. 
Sv£h as are afraid they will fall. —Use Jude 24 ; Isaiah xli. 10, 13 ; 2 Tim. i. 12 ; 

Rom. viii. 35, 39 ; Col. iii. 3, 4. 

For those who stumble at the inconsistencies of Christians. — Rom. xiv. 12 ; Johnxxi. 
21, 22 ; Matt. vii. 1, 3 ; Rom. ii. 1 ; xiv. 3, 4. 

For those who have tried to become Christians without success. — Jeremiah xxix. 13; 

Deut. iv. 29 ; Rom. iv. 5. 
For those who wait a more convenient season. — Proverbs xxvii. 1 ; James iv. 13, 17 ; 

2 Cor. vi. 2 ; Heb. iii. 13. 

For those who have too many things to give up. — Mark viii. 35, 37 ; Phil. iii. 7. 

Helps for Inquirers. — Do you doubt? read 1 John v. 13; iii. 2, 14, 24. Have you 
strayed? read Jer. ii. 5, 19, 27, 32 ; Jer. iii. 12-14, 22. Are you good enough ? 
read Romans iii. 10, 12, 23 ; Isa. i. 5, 6 ; 1 John i. 10. Too great a sinner ? 
read Isaiah i. 18 ; liii. 4, 5 ; xliii. 25 ; xliv. 22 ; Rom. v. 6. Don't know how ? 
read John i. 12 ; iii. 15, 16, 18, 36 ; vi. 29, 47 ; Isaiah xxvi. 3 ; Psa. xxxvi. 8 ; 
Rev. xxii. 17 ; Rom. vi. 23 ; Isa. Iv. 1 . Do you trust and doubt ? read Rom. 
X. 9, 10 ; Matt. x. 32. Afraid you will fail ? Read 2 Tim. i. 12; Rom. viii. 
38, 39 ; Col. iii. 3, 4. For the time to be saved, see Isa. Iv. 6 ; 2 Cor. vi. 2 ; 
Heb. iii. 7. For the danger of delay, see Prov. i. 24, 28 ; Psa. ix. 17 ; 2 Peter 
ii. 9. For contrasts in conversion, see Acts xvi, Lydia and the Jailer ; Acts 
viii, the eunuch ; Acts ix, Paul ; Acts x, the centurion. See the great invi- 
tations. Rev. xxii. 17 ; Matt. xi. 28. 

Evidences of Sonship. — Gal. iv. 6 ; Rom. viii. 15 ; Matt. vi. 31, 32 ; Mark xiv. 36 ; 
2 Cor. V. 15 ; Matt. v. 16. 

Repentance, — Hebrews xii. 15, 17 ; Matt, xxvii. 3-5 ; 2 Cor. vii. 9-11 ; Acts v. 31 ; 
Acts xvii. 30 ; Mark vi. 12. 



BIBLE READINGS. 13 

For anxious souls. — Leviticus xvi 21, 22; John i. 29; Isaiah liii. 6; Psalm ciii. 12; 
Isa. xliv. 22; Isa. xliii. 25, Col. i. 20; 2 Cor. v. 14-21; 1 Peter ii. 24; 1 John 
i. 7; 1 John v. 11; Rom, x. 13. The anxious soul's thirst, John iv. 15. The 
Saviour's answer, John vii. 37; Rev. xxii. 17; John iv. 14; Rev. xxi. 6. 

The need of salvation. — Sin universal, Rom. iii. 23. All gone astray, Isa. liii. vi. 
Holiness indispensable, Heb. xii. 14. One sin destroys, James ii. 10. Self- 
deception J)ossible, 1 John i. 8. The simple test, Rom. vi. 16. 

Ood's command. — The comprehensive demand, Mark xii. 30. Faith in Christ re- 
quired, Acts xvi. 31. 

Man's guilt. — Christ's claim unrecognized, John i. 11. His invitation despised, 
John V. 40. His authority rejected, Luke xix, 14. The nature perverted, 
Rom. viii. 7- The thoughts evil, Matt. xv. 19. The heart wrong, Jer. xvii. 
9. The' mind wrong, Eph. iv. 18. The conscience wrong, 1 Tim. iv. 2. 
Spiritually dead, Eph. ii. 1. Hopeless, Eph. ii. 12. Without peace, Is. Ivii. 
21. Spiritual poverty, Rev. iii. 17. Peril, Ezek. xviii. 20. Under condem- 
nation, John iii. 18. Unbelief the cause, John viii. 24. Death the result, 
Rom. vi. 23. Under wrath, John iii 36. Judgment to come, Rom. ii. 6. 
Final sentence, Matt. xxv. 41. . 

God ready to save, — God's character, Neh. ix. 17. God's unspeakable love, John 
iii. 16. God's command, Mark i. 15. God's expostulation, Ezek. xviii. 31. 
God's warning, Heb. iii. 8. God's urgency, Gen. xix. 17. God's promise, 
Mai. iii. 7. No stain too deep, Isa. i. 18. Forgiveness full, Isa. Iv. 7. A 
new covenant, Heb. viii. 12. 

The divine provision. — Christ saves, John i. 36. By sacrificing himself. Gal. i. 4. 
By bearing our sins, 1 Pet. ii. 24. By becoming our substitute, Isa. liii. 5. 
By becoming our Redeemer, Eph. i. 7. He cleanses wholly, 1 John i. 7. 
He brings back to God, Eph. ii. 13. He makes reconciliation^ 2 Cor. v. 19. ' 

The necessary conditions — Acceptance of Christ, Acts xvi. 31. By Faith, John 
iii. 16. Confession first, 1 John i. 9. Sincerity necessary, Joel ii. 12. Not 
mere regret, 2 Cor. vii. 10. A new nature. John iii. 7. A new heart, Ezek. 
xxxvi. 26. A new condition. Acts xxvi. 18. A new creation, Eph. iv. 24. 
Work of the Spirit, Titus iii. 5. 

Tlie invitation extended.— AW invited, Isa. Iv. 1. Salvation free, Rev. xxii. 17. 
Faith secures the blessing, Acts x. 43. Eternal life, John iii. 16. To all who 
believe, Acts xiii. 39. Being justified, Rom. v. 1. A free gift, Eph. ii. 8. 
An immediate salvation, John iii. 36. Every want satisfied, John vi. 35. 
True life begun, John xi. 25. 

Who are invited.— The lost, Luke xix. 10. Sinners, Luke v. 32. All who repent, 
Acts V. 31. And believe, Acts xx. 21. Even enemies. Col. i. 21. Even 
fchough dead in sin, Eph. ii. 1. With the hardest heart, Ezek. xxxvi. 26, 
Desperately unclean, Matt. viii. 2. Though ready to despair, Heb. vii. 25. 
Cannot be shut out, John x. 9. If the want is felt, John vii. 37. If sin is a 
bur 1 en, Matt. xi. 28. If he is in earnest, Mark ii. 5. Even the chief of sin- 
ners, J Tim. i. 15 



14 BIBLE READINGS. 

Tfie invitation urgent. — The choice to be immediate, Josh. xxiv. 15. God is spcr*k 
ing now, Heb. iii. 15. No promise for to-morrow, 2 Cor. vi. 2. Then, it may- 
be too late, Isa. Iv. 6. This the first duty, Matt, vi, 33. Act at once, Luke 
xiii. 24. Do not be deceived, Luke x. 42. Your soul is at stake, Mark viii. 
37. Break away from all sin, 2 Cor. vi. 17. Jesus is waiting. Rev. iii. 20. 
He supplies every need, John xiv. 6. No help elsewhere. Acts iv. 12. No 
access but by Him, 1 Tim. ii. 5. A sure foundation, 1 Cor. ii^. 11. 

Work of the Holy Spirit. — Convincing, John xvi. 8. Renewing, John iii. 5- 
Guiding, John xvi. 13. Witnessing, Rom. viii. 16. Helping, Rom. viii. 26- 
Making fruitful; Gal. v. 22. Do not grieve Him, 1 Thes. v. 19. 

Obstacles. — Vain excuses, Luke xiv. 18. Impenitence, Rom. ii. 5. Unbelief, 
Matt. xiii. 58. Worldliness, 1 John ii. 15. Pride, Prov. xvi. 5. Fear of 
man, John xii. 43. Self -Righteousness, Luke xvi. 15. Pleasure, Titus iii. 3. 
An unforgiving temper, Matt. vi. 15. Living for self, 2 Cor. v. 15. Self- 
Denial necessary, Mark viii. 34. At any cost. Matt, xviii. 8. Test of dis- 
cipleship, Luke xiv. 33. Christ watching, Luke ix. 26. 

Doubting. — Delay is sin, 1 Kings xviii. 21. The true teacher, John vi, 68. Obe- 
dience, Matt. vii. 24. Solves doubts, John vii. 17. Neglect of Bible, John 
V. 39. Love of sin. Matt, vi, 23. Chris b alone enlightens, John viii. 12. 
In heavenly knowledge, James i. 5. Not philosophical reasoning, 1 Cor. i. 
17. Humility essential, Matt, xviii. 3. Humility blessed, James iv. 6. 
Sincerity blessed. Acts viii. 37. Rejection impossible, John vi. 37. He 
breaks all fetters, John viii. 32. Use his method, Luke iv. 8. Listen to 
His voice, Mark iv. 39. Be not faithless, John xx. 28. All will yet be made 
plain, John xiii. 7. 

Backsliding. — Repent, Rev. ii. 5. Return, Jer. ii. 19. Confess all, Jer. xiv. 7. 
Hear His promise, Hosea, xiv. 4. Peter forgiven. Matt. xxvi. 75. He will 
hear you, Psalm cxxx. 1. He can save you, Matt. xiv. 31. The good Shep- 
herd, Psalm xxiii. 3. 

Accepting the invitation. — Jesus healed Bartimeus, Mark x. 47. Jesus told of 
the publican, Luke xviii. 13. Jesus rescued Peter, Matt. xiv. 30. Sinceie 
penitence. Psalm xxxii, 5. Prompt decision, Luke xv. 18. Full confession. 
Psalm Ii. 4. Praying for a new heart, Psalm Ii. 10. All things are possibJe, 
Mark ix. 24, A willing response. Psalm xxvii. 8. The reward of faith, 
Mark iii. 5. Satisfying knowledge, John ix. 25. Peace in believing, Luke 
viii. 48. Renewed, 2 Cor. v. 17. 

Duties. — Loving obedience, John xiv. 15. Entire consecration, Rom. xii. 1. The 
ruler of the soul, 2 Cor. x. 5. The Indwelling Spirit, 1 Cor. iii. 16. Speak 
for Christ, Rom. x. 10. Home religion, Luke viii. 39. Unite with His 
people, Luke xxii. 19. Honor His name. Matt. v. 16. Use His weapons, 
Epb. vi. 11. Ask His Aid, 1 Thes. v. 17. Keep near to him. Col. ii. 6, 7, 
Follow His example, Heb. xii. 2. Expect a crown. Rev. ii. 10. Cling to 
the promises, Heb. vi. 12. 

Encouragements. — The Father's love, Luke xii. 32. His workmanship, Phil. i. 6. 
His purpose for each, Phil. ii. 13. Joy in an unseen Saviour, 1 Peter i, 8, 



BIBLE READINGS. 15 

A burden-bearer, 1 Peter v. 7. A deliverer, 1 Cor. x. 13. His unchanging 
word, Heb. x. 23. His sustaining arm, Isa. xliii. 2. His providing grace, 
2 Cor. xii. 9. His preserving care, 1 Peter i. 5. More than conquerors, 
Rom, viii. 31. The highest privilege of man, 1 John iii. 1- A glorious in- 
heritance, Rom. \dii. 17- A proof of acceptance, 1 John iii. 14. A pledge 
of safety. Gal. ii. 20. A standard of valuation, Phil. iii. 8. Infinite re- 
sources, Eph. iii. 20. The prayer of faith, John xv. 7. The unfailing advo' 
cate, Heb. vii. 25 The sentinel of the heart, Phil. iv. 7. The owner of 
all, 1 Cor. iii. 21. Mansions ready, John xiv. 2. The song rf heaven begun 
on earth, Rev. i. 5, 6. 



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TO BE OFTEN READ OVER, THOUGHT OVER, AND PRAYED OVER, AND THE 
TEXTS TO BE MARKED IN YOUR BIBLE. ' 

Are you indeed a Christian — a true child of God? John i. 12; 
Gal. iii. 26. 

Have you been born again by the Holy Spirit ■? John iii 3; John 
iii. 6; 1 Peter i. 23; Ezek. xxxvi. 26, 27. 

Has your soul been washed in the precious blood of Christ? Titus 
iii. 5; Rev. i. 5. 

Do you know that your sins are all forgiven? Acts x. 43; Eph. i. 7; 
1 John ii. 2. 

Can you say that you love the Lord Jesus ? 1 Corinthians viii. 3; 
1 John iv. 19; 1 Peter i. 8; John xxi. 17. 

Are you now trusting in Him as your own precious Saviour? 
Eph. i. 12; Isaiah xxvi. 3; 1 Peter ii. 6, 7. 

What God requires most of all is reality. Ps. Ii. 6; Josh. xxiv. 14. 
Your secret thoughts are known to Him. Ps. xc. 8; Ps. xliv. 20, 21. 
Can you sincerely and truly, as in His sight, answer these important 
questions? 1 Peter iii. 15. 

Then what a blessed position is yours ! Those who believe in Jesus 
HAVE everlasting life ! John v. 24; John vi. 47. There is no condem- 
nation for them. Rom. viii. 1. They are the sheep of the Saviour's 
fold, and they shall never perish. John x. 27, 28. 

Satan cannot harm you if you trust in Christ. Jas. iv. 7; Rom. xvi. 20. 

The Lord has bought you, and you are his. 1 Pet. i. 18, 19; 1 Cor. vi. 20 
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HINTS FOR YOUNG CHRISTIANS. 17 

He is able to keep you (Jude 24), and He has promised to keep you. 
Isaiah xli. 10; 2 Thess. iii. 3; Isaiah xxvi. 3. You are safe, not be- 
cause you have hold of Jesus, but because Jesus has hold of you, 
Isaiah xli. 13; Ps. cxix. 117. 

Are you a babe in Christ *? Heb. v. 13; 1 Cor. iii. 1. You ought 
not to remain a babe. You are to grow — to grow in grace and in 
knowledge. 2 Peter iii. 18. For .this you need the sincere (pure) 
milk of the Word. 1 Peter ii. 2. Are you making it your daily food] 
Jer. XV. 16. 

The Word of God is to be the rule of your life. Ps. cxix. 9, 105. 
Do not take the opinions of men, even of Christian teachers, without 
trying them by that Word. Isa. viii. 20; Gal. i. 8. 

Of course, ydu have your own Bible. Do you read it regularly^ 
'Ps. i. 2; Acts xvii. 11. Do not open it anywhere, but have some plan 
of choosing your daily portion, so as to go through the whole of the 
Scriptures. 2 Tim. iii. 16. 

Read a little at a time, and read it carefully and prayerfully. 
Before you read, ask for the Holy Spirit to teach you, and show you 
what there is in it for yourself. Ps. cxix. 18; John xiv. 26. 

When reading, mark any texts that strike your notice. You may 
often learn portions by heart. Ps. cxix. 11. You may also, with a 
reference Bible, gain much help by searching out the references. John 
V. 39. 

Never neglect private prayer. Matt. vi. 6. Rise early ^ so as to 
have a quiet time in the morning with God. Ps. v. 3; Ps. cxix. 147; 
Mark i. 35. 

Ileal prayer is asking God for what we feel we want; not merely 
saying prayers we have learned by heart. John iv. 24; Ecclesiastes v. 2. 
Think of what you need, and ask the Holy Spirit to teach you to pray. 
Rom. viii. 26. 

Let praise always form a part. Ephesians v. 20; 1 Thess. v. 18. 

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18 BIBLE READINGS. 

Never forget to count up your mercies, and to thank God for them. 
Ps. ciii. 1-5. 

Confess your daily sins. Ps. xxxii. 5; Hosea xiv. 2. Bring them 
one by one to Jesus, and ask Him to cleanse your soul from each evil 
habit and each foolish thought. Ps. li. 2; Ezek. xxxvi. 25. 

Pray for others. 1 Tim. ii. 1; Eph. vi. 18. It may be well to 
make a list, to remind you of those you wish to pray for. 1 Thess. i. 2. 
Remember your parents, brothers and sisters, schoolfellows, friends. 
Jobxlii. 10. 

Especially pray for your ministers and teachers, and for the ser- 
vices you attend, and do not forget missionaries in foreign lands. 
Rom. XV. 30; 2 Cor. i. 11. 

Take your little troubles and difficulties to Jesus. Philippians iv. 6- 
Tell Him all. 1 Peter v. 7. You can lift up your heart in prayer at 
any time, and anywhere, 1 Tim. ii. 8; Lam. iii. 41. God is listening, 
and will give you what you ask in accordance with His will, for Jesus' 
sake. Mark xi. 24; John xiv. 14; 1 John v. 14, 15. 

If God sends you a trouble, or a disappointment, or thwarts some of 
your plan J, try to see what He means to teach you by it. Heb. xii. 1 1 ; 
Ps. cxix. 71. 

No doubt you are blamed sometimes, or reproved for your faults. 
1 Peter ii. 20. Perhaps this is God's way of sliowing them to you. 
Heb. ii. 1. Take the reproof meekly and thankfully, as from Him. 
Ps. cxix. 75; Heb. xii. 7. 

Temptations you are sure to ha.ve, but they are SK/re not to be too 
hard for you to bear. Trust in the promise, '' God is faithful, who loill 
not svffer you to be tempted above that ye are able." 1 Cor. x. 13; 
James i. 12; 2 Peter ii. 9; Rev. iii. 10. 

Remember God gives you the Holy Spirit to enable you to resist 
Satan. James iv. 7; 1 Peter v. 8, 9. You have this power, and you 



HINTS FOR YOUNG CHRISTIANS. 19 

are responsible for using it. 1 Cor. iii. 16; Eph. iv. 30; Galatians v. 16; 
Phil. iv. 13. 

*' Watch and pray" (Matt. xxvi. 41; Col. iv. 2), but not only 
against the temptations that come from without — companions, and from 
the world ; those in your own sinful heart are by far the worst. 
Jeremiah xvii. 9; Matt. xv. 19. '^Keep thy heart with all diligence." 
Prov. iv. 23. 

Satan will tempt you to be cast down, and to fear you are not a 
Christian. Psalm xlii. 11. Take this trouble straight to Jesus. 
Matt. xi. 28. Look up; don't look down. Ps. cxxi. 1. It is wrong to 
give way to these suggestions of Satan. 2 Cor. ii. 11. The command 
is, ^' Rejoice in the Lord." 1 Thess. v. 16; Phil. iv. 4. 

Remember your salvation does not depend on your feelings^ any 
more than upon your doings. It depends on what Christ has done for 
you; and His work is a perfect work. 1 John v. 13; Phil. i. 6. 

— The Christian. 



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REV. JAS. H. BROOKES. 



I. — Acquaint yourself with tiie Bible. 

To use the Bible efficiently in your work, you must first be ac- 
quainted with it. Jesus says ( John v. 39 ) " Search the Scriptures," 
implying that you must go down beneath the surface to discover the 
depths of the riches of the wisdom of God. In Acts xvii. 11 it is 
written, '* These were more noble than those in Thessalonica." Notice 
the stamp of nobility which God recognizes. Is it nobility of birth ? 
social station 1 wealth *? learning ? No ! These were noble men and 
women, ^' in that they received the Word with. all readiness of mind, 
and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so." That 
is the title to nobility in God's estimation. Last winter in St. Louis, 
when the snow was deep, a gentleman on leaving a house one night to 
enter his sleigh dropped a diamond ring. It sank in the snow. No 
casual search for it would answer. He at once placed near the spot a 
large box, hired the policeman to keep watch during the night, and at 
the early dawn made persistent search until he found it. He did this 
because it was something precious in his estimation. But what is a 
diamond compared with the riches of grace and glory which will be 
found in this blessed book? Seek this acquaintance, because (1) By it 
we are born again: James i. 18 ; 1 Peter i. 23. (2) It makes clean: 
John XV. 3. (3) It builds up. Paul says to the elders at Ephesus, 
'* The Word is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance 
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THE BIBLE WITH CHRISTIAN WORKERS. 21 

among them which are sanctified." Also, 1 Peter ii. 2. (4) It sancti- 
fies and saves. Jesus says (John xvii. 17), '' Sanctify them through 
thy truth; thy Word is truth." So Paul, 2 Thes. ii. 13. (5) It ac- 
complishes God's will: Is. v. 10, 11; Jer. xxiii. 29. (6) It is all 
powerful : 2 Cor. x. 4. In Ephesians vi. 17, the one weapon given for 
attack upon the foe is the ^' Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of 
God." (7) It is all sufficient, as Jesus declares. Luke vi. 31, and in 
John XV. 10-13, we are told '^ He that believeth not God hath made 
him a liar." Why] Simply because '^ he believeth not the record 
which God gave of his Son." 

II. — All Scripture is of God : 2 Tim. iii. 16. From the first word 
of Genesis to the last word of Revelation, all is inspired : 2 Peter i. 
19-21. " We have a more sure word." More sure in one sense than 
the brightest flashes of glory that were ever seen upon the Mount of 
Transfiguration. A great many people think prophecy is a dark place, 
God says here, it is *^ a light which shines in a dark place." They ^^ spake 
as they were moved," not as they thought, not as they imagined, but as 
they were '' moved by the Holy Ghost." Hence Jesus in His charge 
to His disciples, Matt. x. 19, 20, said : *^ It is not ye that speak but 
the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." See also Acts iii. 
21 ; iv. 25 ; 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. 

Moreover the Scripture is called: (1) The oracles of God: Rom. 
iii. 1, 2. (2) The word of God : Mark vii. 13. (3) The word of the 
Lord : Acts viii. 25. (4) The word of Truth : 2 Cor. vi. 7. (5) The 
word of Life: John vi. 68. (6) The word of Christ: Col. iii. 16. 
(7) The word of Faith : Rom. x. 8, 9. 

I want to press this text home upon any unsaved friends. The 
Word is nigh you to-night ; nearer than when St. Paul wrote these 
verses. An insane woman had shut herself up in a room with a little 
child till both were nearly dead. When we burst into the room, we 
found the child lying on the bed able only to whisper, " water, water." 



22 BIBLE READINGS. 

When her little trembling hands pressed the goblet to her lips she was 
scarcely able to hold it; but, as it refreshed her, she seized it with a 
strong, nervous grasp. When your perishing, thirsty soul receives the 
word of Faith, not the strength of your grasp on it, but the divine 
power of the refreshing Word will give consolation and strength. 

III. — All Scripture is about Christ : John v. 39-46. He does not 
say, Search part of them. Again, read Luke iv. 21 ; also Luke xxiv. 
25-27. Now observe, that beginning at Moses and all the prophets he 
expounded concerning Himself; Luke xxiv. 32. I do not wonder that 
their hearts burned within them. Many of the hearts of God's people 
have burned within them when they have found Christ in the Old 
Testament, where they never thought of discovering him before. In 
Luke xxiv. 44, 45, he says, ^'All things are written there about Me," 
in those three great divisions of the Old Testament. Look at what is 
said in Matt. ii. 13-15, in the light of which read Hosea xi. 1 ; Acts 
xvii. 2, 3. He did not reason with them out of human science, human 
logic, or human learning, but out of the Old Testament Scriptures. 
Remember this when you are attacked as Christian workers by fallible 
science ; and never study the Bible in the light of science, but study 
science in the light of the Bible. If you want to make efficient work- 
ers, build not on a metaphysical basis, but on the divine interpretation 
of God's blessed word. Apollos was mighty here ; Acts xviii. 28. In 
the last chapter of Acts, 23d verse, we see Paul occupied all day with 
the Old Testament Scriptures. How many of us find enough in the 
Old Testament to occupy us all day ? Mr. Whittle told me last summer 
of an unlettered man who had studied the Bible until he had become 
convinced, without any outside suggestions, that the last clause of Bom. 
viii. 1 , did not belong there. I believe that man was taught that by 
the Holy Spirit. (See question and answer below.) 

TV. — All Scripture is for ourselves : Bom. xv. 4 ; 1 Cor. iv. 2. 
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THE BIBLE WITH CHRISTIAN WORKERS. 23 

become acquainted with its precious words, and gently lead the lost into 
the palace of God: 1 Thess. ii. 13. The poor empress Carlotta had 
escaped from the palace. Her physician knew that a rude shock would 
dethrone forever her tottering reason. Knowing her fondness for flow- 
ers, he scattered them in her pathway, and she, charmed like a child, 
was safely led back again. If you want to become efficient workers 
for the Master, seek for and strew the beautiful flowers of Scripture in 
the paths of those who have wandered, and lure them back to God. 

Y. — Cherish as Christian workers a feeling of dependence upon the 
Holy Spirit. In John viii. 38, 39, and Acts i. 8, Jesus inculcates this 
dependence upon his disciples. In Acts vi. 5, Stephen is *^ full of the 
Holy Ghost,'' and in 8th verse, we find him '^ full of power." We also 
receive the spirit of adoption : E,om. viii. 15, and Gal. iv. 6. Until 
with child-like confidence we know God as our Father, we cannot be 
efficient workers. Little May Newton, three years old, in her father's 
arms fired the explosion which opened Hell Gate to commerce. And 
the child of God who is filled with His Spirit finds nothing impossible 
to him : 2 Tim. i. 7. 

YL — To become efficient workers, make use of prayer in connection 
with the Word : Matt. xxi. 21 ; Luke xi. 9 ; John xiv 13, and xvi. 24. 
What hath God wrought in answer to prayer? Jas. v. 17, 18. 

YIL— In your work think of the value of the soul : Matt. xvi. 27 ; 
xviii. 10, 11, 14 j and of the Lord's approval ; 2 Cor. v. 9. 



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BT -W. HIND SMITH, OF MANCHESTER. 



1. Have for constant use a portable reference Bible 

2. Carry a Bible or Testament with you. 

3. Don't be afraid of marking it, or making notes on the margin ; 
promises, exhortations, warnings to Christians, and invitations to the 
unsaved. 

4. Do not be satisfied with simply reading a chapter, but study the 
meaning of at least one verse every day. 

5. 'Study so as to ascertain the whole truth^ contained in a single 
incident or miracle ; when and why written, how it applies to your- 
self, and how to use it for others. 

6. Study to know for what, and to whom a book or chapter was 
written. Study the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles together, 
also, Leviticus and Hebrews, etc. 

7. Believe in the Bible as God's revelation to you, and act accord- 
ingly. 

8. Learn at least one verse of Scripture each day. Verses from 
memory will be wonderfully useful in your daily life and work. See 
Josh. i. 8. Psalm cxix. 11. 

9. Study how to use the Bible so as to " walk with God " and lead 
others to Christ. 

10. Set apart at least fifteen minutes of each day for studying it ; 

this little will be grand in result and never be regretted. 
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HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE. 25 

11. Read the book as if it were written for yourself. 

12. Always ask God to help you to understand it, and then ex- 
pect that He will. 

13. Have Cruden's Concordance and a Bible Text-Book at hand; 
also, in all cases refer to parallel passages and marginal notes, and take 
time to think before "consulting commentaries. 

14. Study the Bible in the freshness of the morning, rather than 
the weary hours of evening. 

15. Read systematically, with some purpose in mind. 

16. Read the Bible with a view of living rather than merely learn- 
ing it, coming to it not only perfunctorily for lessons and sermons, but 
also for loving conversation, *' as a man talketh with his friend/' 



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By KALPH "WELLS.* 



1. Feed on the Word. There must be a personal feeding of the 
soul on Christ, or it can no more be nourished thereby, than a body 
can be by another's taking nourishment for it. 

I remember rising in the night many years since, and endeavoring 
in vain to light the top of the extinguisher, instead of the wick of the 
candle ; so ofttimes we seek light from God's Word, with an extin- 
guisher on our souls. 

One of the most common is hurry, A hre will warm one, if he 
tarry long enough by it ; but a hasty glance at, or approach to it, is in 
vain. It was while the wise man mused, the fire burned. 

It was Mary sitting at Jesus' feet, and she that pondered these 
things in her heart, that grew thereby. The ^ve minutes' drive through 
a chapter, so common in our day, often a mere form, is of little more 
value than were the phylacteries on the hem of the Pharisee's robe. 
The daily newspaper is read with so much attention by multitudes, 
that they are able all through the day to discuss its contents, whereas 
it would^puzzle many a one to remember the portion of God's truth 
read that same morning. 

One of the greatest writers of the day has said, "It is not by long 
and fatiguing effort, but in earnest, careful attention at the moment, 
that deep impressions are made upon the mind." 

^Outline of an Address delivered at the Sunday School Parliament. 

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THE layman's bible. 27 

The man who reads with a yawn, wonders who that is at the bell, 
gets up to see, wonders whose cat that is on the fence, and whether the 
reading time is not almost spent, is reading to no profit. 

Would I profit by the oracle of God, I must devote a fair portion 
of time to its perusal. I have twenty-four hours in each day, all there 
is of time, and while I study I must give myself earnestly to under- 
stand its meaning. 

Another very common extinguisher to all chance of light, is living 
in some known sin. For instance, Covetousness, which is idolatry. 

If my brain is full of accounts and account books, of profit and 
loss, of course there is no room for anything else ; and while thoughts 
of these things are indispensable, they must not intrude on God's time. 
It is he that doeth His will who is to know concerning the doctrine, 
and no spectacles are so precious for right understanding of the Word 
as a conscience void of ofience towards God and man. It is he that is 
rooted and grounded in love who is able to comprehend with all saints 
*' What is the love of Christ," &c. So, would I have the Bible a lamp 
to my feet, let me walk with Jesus and I shall, with opened eyes, behold 
wondrous things in that holy law. 

Another extinguisher to the meaning of the Word is reading it in 
detached fragments instead of letting it be its own commentary. Won- 
derful is the light one gains by simply looking out the references as he 
reads. The first passage that occurs to me is Joshua i. 5, a precious 
promise of God's abiding presence with Joshua. If I turn to the refer- 
ence, Hebrews xiii. 5, I find written, (addressed to all trusting ones), 
*^ For He hath said, I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee." So, in 
every daily reading the hungry soul finds hidden sweets, only awaiting 
search as for hid silver. 

2. Use the word naturally, by yourself. Don't try to be Paul, 
Peter or even Priscilla. The Lord our God gives to every redeemed 
soul a commission to go and preach the gospel to any sinner who is 



28 BIBLE READINGS. 

willing to listen to the message, but don't try to be D. L. Moody in 
delivering it. He is a very stout man, and his coat may not fit you. 
But while you are yourself, and go because you are sent, and realize 
that you, like John the Baptist, are but a voice, crying in the wilder- 
ness, there are certain great principles that we may not ignore. Allow 
me to illustrate. Far away from home, a fugitive from northern blasts, 
I find myself in the large office of a Southern hotel. The weather is 
cold, and gathered around the stove are a curious medley of men. 
There are some apparently hack-drivers ; some servants, of the hotel ; 
some, travelers, halting a little on their journey to sell goods in this 
important center; others, I should suppose, were loafers in general, or 
were waiting for something to turn up. Seated in a corner with my last 
N. Y, Observer^ saved carefully for this Sabbath evening, my attention is 
drawn by the loud tones of a blatant infidel who is in his element, 
spitting on the Bible, and trying to find words indecent enough to ap- 
ply to the meek and lowly Redeemer of men. While thinking whether 
I should leave my quiet corner, and '' cast pearls before swine," as it 
seemed to me, another voice joined in ; a little man, seated on a stool, 
exclaims, ^' Is that really in the Bible? Have you got one, stranger ? " 
'' Certainly, there it is, I know the thing from stem to stern ; read for 
yourself." *' Well, friend," says the new comer, '4f it's so good, let's 
have a little more ; a man can hardly tell what the dinner is, if he stops 
at the soup, but let's have a little of the roast beef and plum-pudding." 
And then he began opening up to them the Scriptures, and adapting 
himself most remarkably to those faculties of his audience which bad 
probably been most cultivated and developed. 

And here, dear friends, I have reached the point I want to leave 
on your minds, not only study your Bible, but your hearer. This is 
how the Great Teacher spake as man never spake, all classes understood 
him. T fear that much of the teaching and preaching of the day is 
entirely over the heads of the majority of the hearers, because their 



THE Layman's bible. 29 

faculties of thought have not been sufficiently cultivated in that line to 
enable them to follow the speaker in his argument or reasoning. Do 
teach small ; do deal in fundamentals ; do be direct ; there is much 
talking religiously, and directing to the Bible, that has no point to it. 
It is very hard to be simple ; that is the reason why simplicity is so 
scarce. 

Now if we can only find, somewhere in the Word, the Master's 
own direction to a religious teacher, how to teach others, we are sure 
of commencing right. My Bible will almost turn itself to a sweet 
pasturage in 2 Timothy iii. 16, and I purpose to look at it with you. 

''All Scripture," not little isolated pieces taken by themselves, only 
please notice the ''all" — literally, ''All the God-given, sacred writings.'* 
One man says, " I have devoted my whole spare time to finding out the 
meaning of the number 7, in the Bible ;" ( a fact, said to me by a very 
good man.) Another, an eminent church officer, every time he opens 
the Bible, sees nothing but the second coming of our Lord. Another 
is absorbed in finding out from the Word, whether the Jews will really 
all be gathered again at Jerusalem. Our passage implies that a healthy 
soul can only be grown on all Scripture. Please, then, to notice the 
meaning of the four words of the text : 1. Doctrine^ or Teaching. 
2. Reproofs or convincing or convicting. 3. Correction^ to re-right or 
set up again : the original has both meanings . 4. Instruction in re- 
ligion , built up in Jesus. 

Doctrine or Teaching: " How I do hate those doctrinal sermons, 
don't you, Mr. W.T' "Can't say that I do; as I understand doctrines 
to mean the great truths made known to us through revelation." " But 
I like practical sermons better ; something that tells one how to live." 
" But is there, madam, any right practice that has not for its foundation, 
right Doctrine ? Is not knowledge of the mind and will of God most 
essential to the holy living you desire T 

This making known of the great fundamental truths of revelation, 



30 BIBLE READINGS. 

is, then, the first use the teacher is to make of the Word, and so we are 
taught the gross ignorance of man without it. Ignorance of the char- 
acter of our God, of our own sinful nature, of how sin is regarded in 
the sight of a holy God, its nature, punishment and remedy. Now the 
wise teacher will rightly divide the truth, giving to each a portion 
suited to his wants and capacities. 

3. Use the Word red hot It must come from the innermost 
depths of a heart abounding with love to God. Be filled with God's 
Word let it be your thought and conversation. 



!|f jthing i\^ Jttb util| ^^H$^. 



BY I^EV. W. F. CRAFTS. 



At the Hamilton Camp-meeting one noon-day, when twice as many- 
people as could be seated at once in the dining hall had pressed and 
crowded at the gate for a chance at the first table, having many of them 
come half an hour in advance to improve their chances, E-ev. John 
Allen — ^^ Camp-meeting John " — was called upon to invoke the divine 
blessing, and did so in these striking words : '' Lord, make us as eager 
for the heavenly bread as we are for these earthly dainties ! " 

The same prayer was expressed in slightly different words long 
ages ago by the author of the 119.th Psalm, in its 125th verse : ^' Give 
me relish (literal) that I may know Thy testimonies ! " That prayer has 
been wonderfully answered in many Christian hearts. In none has the 
answer been more perfect than in the heart of him who first uttered it. 
That longest Psalm in the Bible is a Hallelujah Chorus of one hundred 
and seventy-six verses, praising God because relish for His word has 
been given. The author must have spent years of loving work upon 
this most wonderful Psalm. It is an ingenious acrostic of the Hebrew 
alphabet, the first eight verses all beginning with the first letter, Aleph, 
the second eight verses with the second letter, Beth, and so on to the 
end. The word Jehovah ('' Lord ") is wrought into one-third of the 
verses, as if the author delighted to take it often on his lips, and some 
name for the Bible is woven into every verse, except two, in the whole 
Psalm. 

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32 BiBLE READINGS. 

This relish and delight in God's Word is the more wonderful and 
the more reproving to us since the writer's Bible was less than one- 
fourth as large as ours, and included only Moses' five books — ** the 
Law," on which we so often look with dread rather than delight. The 
ten names which the Jews applied to the Law are used by the unknown 
writer of this Psalm, as ten strings of a harp on which with ever-chang- 
ing variety he sings the praises of the Bible. Those ten strings are 
"Law," ^'Word," "Way," ^'Judgments," "Statutes," "Command- 
ments," " Testimonies," and several others. The two strains that alter- 
nate all through this acrostic song are the excellence of God's Word 
and the happiness of those who cherish and obey it. 

Ruskin, Luther and others have called this their favorite Psalm, 
because to their souls, also, the same relish for the Bible has come. A 
blind girl who had received a copy of the Bible in raised letters, read 
it so eagerly and constantly with her fingers that they were soon so 
worn that every line she read v/as marked with blood, and ere long her 
fingers became so sore that she could no longer read them. Thinking 
that for weeks she could not use her Bible again, she raised it to her 
lips for a loving good-by kiss. As the raised letters of the page touched 
her lips, a thrill of glad surprise flushed her face, for she found she 
could read the page by her lips ; and «o, while hex fingers recovered, 
she moved the pages across her lips, and with greater relish than for 
physical food, " God's words were found, and she did eat them and they 
were unto her the joy and rejoicing of her heart," " sweeter also than 
honey and the honey-comb." But there are many Christians who have 
not this " relish " for God's Word; who read it as a duty, not as a 
delight ; who come to it not because they hunger for it as a delicious 
food, but because they think they must take it as a necessary medicine. 
How can such Christians secure this " relish " for Bible reading? 

Among many others, the chief principle on which a growing relish 
depends is a growing spirituality. There can be no relish without 



READING WITH RI::L1SH. '3© 

spiritual perception and loving interest. A man who looks to tlie 
heavens only with the naked eye, can see only about 3,500 stars, and 
he has only a moderate interest in astronomy ; bnt the man who often 
looks into the heavens through the telescope, and sees the star-dust oi 
eighty-five million worlds, grows more enthusiastic and interested 
through deeper views into the skies. The man who looks upon the 
Bible only with the natural mind, sees, many beauties to admire; but 
three-fourths of the Bible was written for Christians — for those who- 
have the telescope of '^ spiritual discernment" — and no other can see 
enough of the deep and vast firmament of Bible truth to be filled with 
eager relish to read and study it. A blind man might as well expect 
to understand a treatise on color, as an unconverted man to know or 
relish the truths in the Christian three-fourths of the Bible/ As well 
appoint a blind man to teach coloi^s as an unconverted teacher to explain, 
the Bible. He whose eyes have been opened by regeneration to the 
millions of starry truths that lie in the Bible, will be filled with delight 
in studying them more thoroughly. The key is the prayer. '' Open 
Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law ! '^ 
Increasing spirituality will give not only fuller knowledge, but alsa 
more loving interest to inspire relish for the Bible. A young lady^ 
received a book and read it with some pleasure, but laid it away and 
almost forgot that she had it. The author of that book afterwards 
happened to meet her, and the acquaintance ripened into affection and 
betrothal. Then she took down the book from the shelf and read every 
line with tenfold deeper interest than before, for it was the thought and 
message of her betrothed. So the soul that is betrothed in Christian 
covenant to Jesus Christ, takes the Bible not merely as a book of won- 
derful poems and histories, but as the revelation of the thoughts and 
wishes of its Betrothed, and with deepest interest reads evefy line as^ 
the message of a friend. 



—FROM THE— 

WATKINS' GLEN CONFERENCE; 

BY GrEORGE L. BONTi^. 



RELATION OF ISRAEL TO THE CHURCH OF THE 

GENTILES. 

By Rev. James H. Brookes, D. D., St. Louis, Mo. 
1 Cor. X. 32 ; Gen. i. 1 ; Gen. v. 



Difference between the inheritance of saints under Law and Grace,— 



LAW. 

Gen. xiii. 14-17. 
Ex. xxxii. 13. 
Numb. xxvi. 53. 



GRACE. 

Eph. i. 3. 
Heb. iii. 1. 
Eph. ii. 4-7. 



LAW. 

Deut. iv. 21. 
Deut. xxxii. 8. 
Josh. i. 6. 



QRAGB. 

1 Peter i. 3, 4, 
Luke X. 20. 
James ii. 5. 



Difference in the manner of obtaining the inheritance.— 



Deut. vii. 1, 2. 
Num. xxxiii. 51-53. 
Deut. ix. 1-3. 
Deut. xxiii, 3-6. 
Num. xxxi. 2. 
Josh. vi. 21. 



2 Cor. X. 4. 
Matt. xxvi. 52. 
2 Tim. ii. 24. 
Rom. xii. 14. 
Rom. xii. 19. 
Matt. V. 44. 



Josh. xi. 11. Eph. iv. 1, 2. 

Judges V. 24-26. Matt, v. 9. 

1 Sam. XV. 18,23,24,33. 1 Peter ii. 21-23. 

2 Kings i. 10. Luke ix. 54, 55. 
Ps. exxxvii. 9. Matt, xviii. 10-14 



Under the old dispensation, there was restitution by Law. — 

Deut. xxv. 1. 1 Cor. vi. 1-4. Lev. xxiv. 19, 20. 

Ex. xxi. 21, 25. Matt. v. 38, 39. Josh. x. 13. 

Deut. xix. 18-21. Matt. v. 40, 41. Ps. Iviii. 10. 

Deut. xix. 11, 12. Matt. vi. 15. 

Temporal blessings promised to Israel, hut not to Christians. 



Gen. xii. 2. 
Lev. xxvi. 3-8. 
Deut. xxviii. 1-5, 8, 

11-13. 
Deut. xxvi. 18, 19. 
1 Chron.'xxix. 12. 
Ps. XXXV. 3, 25. 

Prov. iii. 9, 10. 
Prov. xvi. 7. 
Prov. XX vii. 23. 
Isaiah i. 19. 



Matt, xviii. 1-3. 
Luke xxii. 24-26. 
Luke ix. 5-8 ; Matt. 

x. 24, 25. 
Luke vi. 26. 
John xiii. 14-16. 
1 Cor. iv. 11-13; 

2 Cor. xi. 27. 
1 Tim. vi. 8, 9. 
Matt. xxiv. 9. 
Matt. vi. 25. 
Luke vi. 21, 22. 



Ps. xxxvii, 3, 26. 



Matt, xviii. 21, 22. 
Acts vii. 59, 60. 
1 Peter iii. 9. 



Acts V. 41. 
Acts ix. 16. 
Rom. viii. 17. 
1 Cor. i. 26. 

1 Cor. XV. 19. 
Gal. i. 10. 
Phil. i. 29. 

2 Tim. iii. 12. 

1 Peter iv. 12, 13. 
1 Peter v. 10. 
Heb. xiii. 12, 13. 



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Priesthood and worship.— 

Ex. xxviii. 1. Rev. i. 5, 6. 

Lev. viii. 2 ; ix. 22-24. 1 Peter ii. 5-9. 



Lev. xvi. 2, 17. 
Num. iii. 5-10. 
Num. xvii. 6, 7, 10. 
Deut. xxvi. 1, 3. 
Num. xvi. 1-3, 8, 9, 
31, 32. 



Heb. X. 14-22. 
Eph. ii. 13-22. 
Matt, xviii. 20. 
John iv. 21, 23, 24. 
Acts vi. 2-5,8, 10. 

Acts viii. 4, 5. 



Lev. xvii. 8, 9. 
Deut. xii. 6, 6. 



Acts X. 28. 
Acts xi. 19-24. 
Phil. iii. 2, 3. 
Heb. ix. 6-14, 24. 
1 Cor. xii. 8-13. 
1 Cor. xviii. 28. 
Col. i. 12-14. 
Col. iii. 16. 
1 Cor. xii. 8, 13, 18. 



Mark x. 21. 



Claim of God on property and service 
Lev. xx\ii. 30-32 
Lev. V. 16. 
Lev. vi. 5. ) 

Num. xviii. 21, 26. Luke xii. 32-37 
Deut. xii. 5, 6. Matt. xvi. 25. 

Law aruL Grace. 
Ex. ii. 12. 
Ex. iii. 2-5. 
Ex. iv. 1-3. 
Ex. iv. 6. 
Ex. vii. 19-21. 
Ex. X. 21, 22. 



Privilege of Christian with property and service.- 

Luke xiv. 33. 
Ex. xiii. 14. Rom. xiv. 8. 

Phil. i. 21. 
2 Cor. V. 13-15. 
Gal. vi. 14. 



John i. 4. 
John i. 14. 
John i. 43. 
John iii. 16 ; v. 
John ii. 1-10. 
John ix. 5-7, 35-38. 



.24. 



Ex. xi. 4-6. 
Ex. xix. J6-21. 
Ex. XX. 21, 25, 26. 
Ex. xxxii. 28. 
Deut. xxi. 18-21. 



John X, 10, 27-29. 
John xiii. 1-10. 
John xiv. 1-6. 

Johrs A. 41. 
Luke XV. 11-23. 



Restoration of Israel.~Gen. xii. 1, 7; Gen. xiii. 14-17 ; Gen. xv. 18, 14; Gen, xxviii. 13, 14; Gen. 
XXXV. 9-13 ; Lev. xxv. 23 ; Lev. xxvi. 40, 45 ; Deut. ix. 24-29 ; Deut. xi.l2; Deut. xxx. 4-6; 
Deut. xxxii. 8 ; Deut. xxxiii. 26-29 ; 1 Kings viii. 30; 2 Chron. vi. 21; 2 Chron. xv. 3-7; 2 Sam. 
vii. 10-19 ; 1 Chron. xvii. 17 ; Is. i. 1 ; Is. ii. 3, 4 ; Is. xi. 11-16 ; Is. xxv. 6-11 ; Is. xxvii. 6-12; 
Is. xxx. 18-21; Is. xxxii. 14-20; Is. xxxiv. 1, 2, 8-17; Is. :^xv. 10; Is. xxxvi. to xxxix. Is. xliii. 
3-6; Is. xliv. 1-5, 21, 22; Is. xlLx. 13-23; Is. liv. 2-13; Is. Ix. 3-5, 12, 14-22; Is. Ixii. 1-7; Is. Ixv. 
18-25; Is. Ixvi. 10-12, 19-21; Jer. iii. 16-18; Jer. xvi. 12-16; Jer. xxxiii. 2-8; Jer. xxiv. 3-7; 
Jer. xxx. 6-9; Jer. xxxi. 27, 28, 31-40; Jer, xxxii. 37-40; Jer. xxxiii. 10-26; Ezek. xxxvii. 16; 
Ezek. xxxviii., xxxix; Dan. ix. 24; Hos. i.-iii. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SONSHIP. 

By Rev. W. J. Erdman, CmcAao, III. 

Joel ii. 28, 29; Is. xxxii. 15; Acts ii. 2; John xiv. 26; Is. xliv. 3; John vii. 37-89; Ezek. xxxvi. 27; 

Ezek. xxxvii. 14; Is. lix. 21; John xiv. 16, 17. 
The Holy Spirit of promise is given to believers as sons, for filial experience^ and for ministry. — 

Eph. i. 5; Gal. iv. 4-7; Rom. viii. 15, 23; John vii. 39; Gal. iv. 1-5; Is. xxxii. 15. 
In the confessed relation of sons, to the ^on.— John ii. 23, professed; xiii. 37, confessed; John xiii.- 

xvii; Luke xxii. 24-27; John xvii. 26; Rom. v. 5. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT AND MINISTRY. 

By Rev. A. B. Simpson, Louisville, Ky. 

John XV. 16; John xiv. 12, 16, 26; John xv. 26; John xvi. 13, 14; Acts ii. 33, 38; Matt, xxviii. 18-20; 
Luke x4v. 49; Acts i. 7, 8; Acts xx. 28; 1 Cor. 3, 4, 12-14; 1 Thes. i. 5; Acts iv. 31; Acts vi. 3-5; 
Acts xi.24; Acts xiii. 2; Acts xvi. 6; 2 Tim. i. 6, 7; 1 Cor. xii. 4-lt; Heb. xii. 28; Col. i. 29. 



3o BIBLE HEADINGS. 

THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND THE CHURCH. 

By Rev. W. J. Erdman, Chicago, III. 

1. The Holy Spirit must he present to make the church.— John xx. 16, 17; 2 Cor. v. 16, 17; 

John xiv. 15-17; John xi. 51, 52; Eph. iv. 4; 1 Cor. xii. 12, 13. 

2. l^he Holy Spirit tnust he preseM to make a ministering church,— Acts i. 1; John xiv. 12; 

John XV. 1-3; 1 Cor. iii. 7-16; 2 Tim. ii. 2; John xiv. 25, 26; John xvi. 13; Acts xx. 20; Acts 
xiii. 4; 1 Cor. xii. 14. 

3. The Holy Spirit must he present to testify to Christ, that the Church may testify to Christ.— 

John XV. 26, 27; John xvi. 13, 14; Acts i. 8. 

4. Seven witness iS in John, to Jesus' divinity.— God, Jesus, Holy Ghost, Scriptures, Works, Be- 

lievers, and John the Baptist. 

5. The Holy Spirit must he present when the world will he convinced of sin, and of righteousness, 

and of judgment.— John x\\.1-n;l Cor. \\. A; Acts ii., iii.; Acts vii. 51; Acts xiii. 2; Heb. 
x. 11; Rom. xv. 16; 1 Peter ii. 5-9; Rom. xii. 1. 

6. The Holy Sjnrit must he present to sustain a suffering church.— Uom. viii. 18; Rom. xxvi. 27; 

1 Peter iv. in, 14; 2 Cor. xii. 7; 1 John iii. 23; Eph. i. 15; Col. 1. 4; Rom.viii. 4. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT IN RELATION TO THE FATHER 

AND SON. 

By Rev. Dr. Bishop, Orange, N. J. 

L. Personality of the Holy Ghost ; relation to God., and the unsaved. — Matt, xxviii. 19; John i. 18 

John XV. 26; 1 John iv. 14; John xiv. 26; 1 Cor. xiv. 33; Ps. ii. 6; John xvi. 14; Rom. viii. 27; 

Rom. XV. 30; Rom. xv. 19; Rom. viii. 6, 14, Eph. iv. 30; Acts vii. 51; 1 John v. 7; Job xxvi. 13; 

Phi], ii. 1; John vi. 63; 2 Cor. v. 17; 1 John iii. 9; Col. i. 27; Is. viii. 20; 2 Tim. iii. 16; John 

viii. 32; Rom. viii. 16; cf. ix. 1; 1 John v. 9-11; Heb. x. 15. 
!. The Holy Spirit in prayer. —Lev. i. 17; Rom. viii. 26-27; Eph. ii. 18; Eph, vi. 18; Jude 20, .21; 

Luke xi. 1-13; Acts xxvii. 23. 



TYPES OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

By Miss Sarah F. SmiTvEY. 
Rom. i. 20. 

1. Avr,— Joh)- iii. 8; John xx. ^g; 1 Cor. xii. 7-11; Ezek. xxxvii. l-io. 

2. Light.—Lwke xi. 34-36; Eph. i. 18; Ps. Ixxix. 7. 

3. Fire.— Matt. iii. 2; Mai. iii. 2; Acts ii. 3. 

•4. Oil.— Lev. xiv. 14-17; Ps. civ. 15; Ps. xxiii. 5; Zech. iv. 11-14. 

5. Water.— Lev. xiv. 6, 7; Num. xix. 17, 18; John iv. 14; cf. vii. 38, 39; Ezek. xlvii. 1-12; 2 Kings 
iii. 17-18; Deut. xxxii. 2. 



WATKINS GLEX CONFERENCE. 

THE SECOND COMING OF -THE LORD. 

By Miss Sarah F. Smiley. 

Acts i. 9-12; Acts iii. 19-21; Isaiah Ixi. 1, 2; Matthe^^ xxiv. 12-14; 2Peteriii.3; Jude 3, lT-19; 
2 Thes ii. 1-8; John v. 28, 29; Rev. xx. 1-6, 11, 12; Matt. xxiv. 32-35; Zech. xiv. 1-5; Matt, xxvii. 
52-63; Luke xvii. 34-36; John v. 24; John xvi. 11; 1 Peter iv. 15-17; 1 Cor. xi. 32-34; Matt, 
xxiv. 48, 42-44; Mark xiii. 31-37; Luke xxi. 34-36; Rom. viii. 11, 12; 1 Cor. xv. 51, 58 59; 
1 Thes. iv. 14-18; Phil. iii. 20, 21; Phil. iv. 1; 2 Peter iii. 11, 12, 14; James v. 7, 8; 1 John ii. 
28, 29; 1 John iii. 1; Rev. xix. 5-9; Rev. xxii. 12, 20. 



THE COMING OF THE LORD, THE HOPE OF THE 

CHURCH. 

By Rev. Chas. M. Whittlesey, Spencerport, N. Y. 

Heb. vi. 11-20; Rom. viii. 1, 22-25; 1 Peter i. 3-9; Titus i. 2; iii. 4-7; Acts xv. 14; Rev. v. 9; Luke 
xix. 12, 13, 27; Luke xvii. 20-30; Matt, xiii.; Matt. xxi. 25-36; Rev. ii., iii.; John xiv.-xvii.; 
2 Tim. iii.; 1 Peter iii.; Jude ; 1 Cor. xv. 60-54; 1 Thes. iv. 17; 2 Cor. v. 1-8; Phil. i. 21-24; 
Heb. ii. 14, 15; Rom. vi. 1-5; Gal. ii. 19, 20; Col. iii. 3. 



THE CHURCH, IN HER RELATION TO CHRIST, 

By Rev. H. W. Brown, Wisconsin. 




A \^U1. JLli. .6/ , il<pii. 11. iU, Xiipil. IV. -*, \.^y X\J, JJi|Jll. V. OV7, \->KJL 

Eph. ii. 22; Heb. iii. 6; Heb. x. 21; 1 Peter ii. 5; 1 Peter iv 
Rom. xvi. 25, 26: Eph. iii. 2-11; Col. i. 25-28. 



CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 

By D. W. Whittle, Chicago, III. 

John V. 46; Acts xxvi. 22, 23; Luke xxiv. 27, 44-46; Gen.i. 1; Ps. xxxiii. 6-9; Isa. xlv. 18, 22, 23; 
Neh. ix. 6; Prov. viii. 22-31; Heb. xi. 3; Heb. i. 2, 5-10: Eph. iii. 9; Col. i. 15-19; 1 John i. 1, 2; 
John i. 1-18; Deut. v. 22; Isaiah ix. 2; Isaiah Ix. 2: Luke xxii. 53; Luke xxiii. 44; John i. 18; 
1 Tim. iii. 16; John xiii 46: Matt. v. 45; Acts xxvi. 18; 2 Cor. iv. 6; Eph, v. 8: 1 Peter ii. 9; 
1 Cor. XV. 41, 42; Matt. xiii. 42; 1 John iii. 2; Eph. ii. 1; Col. ii. 13; 1 Thes. ii. 8, 9; Col. i. 24; 
Matt. V. 14-16; Phil. ii. 15, 16; John v. 46; Gen. ii. 1-4, 7; Gen. vi; Gen. xvi. 7-13; Gen. xviii. 
2-17; Gen. xxii. 11, 12; Gen. xxxii. 24-32; Prov. i. 26; Ps. viii. 4, cf. Heb. ii. 6-9; Gen. iii. 
14,15; Isa. liii. 3, 4; Gen. xxii. 16, 18, cf. Gal. iii. 16; Gen.xlix.lO; 1 Tim.ii.13; Gen. iii. 21, 22. 



38 BIBLE READINGS. 

CHEIST IN EXODUS. 

By Sarah F. Smiley. 

Heb. viii. 5; Ex. xxxi. 2-6; Heb. ix. 9, 8; Exodus xxv. 8; John i. 14; CoL il. 9, 22; John xiv. C; 
Isa. liii. 1; Ex. xxvi. 2; Ex, xxvii. 6; Lev. i.; 2 Cor. v. 21; Eph. v. 2; Eph. i. 6; Rom. iv. 25; 
Eph. i. 13; Ex. xxx. 18; Titus iii. 4, 5; Eph. v. 26; Ex. xxxvili. 8; Col. i. 9, 10; Ex. xxvii. 20; 
Ex. xxx. 34-36; Rev. viii. 3; Rev. xi. 3; Deut. x. 6. 



THE BELTEYER'S ATTITUDE TO THE CHURCH. 

By Rev. Dr. Bishop, Orange, N. J. 

Rom. vi. 14; Rom. iii. 28; Gal. ii. 16-19; Gal. iii. 10, 11; Rom. viii. 1; John v. 24; Gal, iii. 24, 26; 
2 Cor. iii. 18; Ex. xx. 1; James i. 17; Gal. iv. 4; Ps. xi. 8; Ps. ciii. 20; Phil. ii. 10; Acts v. 29; 
Acts v. 28; 1 Thes. iv. 1; 2 Peter iii. 2; Rom. xiii. 9; Eph. v. 25; Eph. vi. 1, 6; Rom. viii. 18; 
Gal. vi. 7, 8; Phil. i. 1; Rev. ii. 1; 1 Thes. v. 12; Heb. xiii. 7, 17, 24; 2 Tim. ii. 12; 1 Cor. xiii. 



THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH. 

By Rev. Chas. M. Whittlesey, Spencerport, N. Y. 

Heb. X. 26, 27, 23; Rom. viii. 1; John v. 24, 25, 28. 29; Rom. xiv. 10-12; 1 Cor. iv. 1-5; 2 Cor. v. 9; 
Acts ii. 26; Acts xxiii. 6; Acts xxiv. 14, 15; 1 Peter i. 3; 1 Cor. xv. 23, 53-58; Romans v. 2; 
Rom. viii. 16-18 ; Rom. viii. 29; Phil. iii. 20,21; John iii. 1-4; Rom. viii. 19; Col. iii. 4; 
Matt. xxii. 1-14; Matt. xxv. 1-13; 2 Cor. xv. 2, 3; Eph. v. 25, 27; 1 Cor. xi. 26; Rev. xix. 7-9; 
2 Timothy ii. 12; Rev. iii. 21; Rev. xx. 4; Eph. iv. 4; 1 Tim. i. 1; Zech. xiv. 5; Matt. xxv. 31; 
1 Thess. i. 9, 10; 2 Thess. i. 1-10; 2 Thes. ii. 1. 



HOW TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL TO THE UNSAVED. 

By D. W. Whittle, Chicago, III. 

1 Thess. i. 6-8; John iii.; Matt. xv. 19; Jeremiah xvii. 9; Gen. vi. 5; Romans iii. 10; Eph. ii. 1-3; 
Rom. iii. 19; Rom. i. 18; Acts xiii. 39; Gal. iii. 10; John i. 29: 2 Cor. v. 14: Rom. vi. 3, 6, 7; 
Col. i. 12-14; 2 Cor. v. 18; Philemon 18. 



THE SPIRIT OF POWER, AND OF LOVE, AND OF A 

SOUND MIND. 

By Sarah F. Smiley. 

2 Timothy i. 6, 7; 2 Timothy ii. 3, 4, 7, 16, 22, 23; Mark iv. 40; Luke xxiv. 49; Acts i.8; Eph.i. 19 
Eph. iii. 14-21; John xvii. 23-26; Gal. v. 22; 2 Cor. v. 14, 15; 1 Cor. xiii.; Titus ii. 2, 6, 6 
Prov. ii. 2-11; Rom. xvi. 19; 1 Cor. iii. 18; James i. 6; Col, i. 12-14; Eph. ii. 4-7: Rom. iv. 6 
Rev. xxii. 17; John xv. 



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FROM THE CROSS TO THE CROWN. 

Prepared by Wm. F. Sherwin. 



THE CROSS. 



The Cross typified. Numb, xxi. 8 ; John iii. 14, 15. 
The Cross borne by Jesus. John xix. 17. 
The Cross borne /or Jesus. Luke xxiii. 26. 

( Sing one verse, " Must Jesus bear the Cross alone?**) 
Jesus bore it unto death. Phil. ii. 8. 

Why? Col. i. 19, 20; Eph. ii. 15, 16; Col. ii. 14; Heb. xil. 2. 
Thenceforth an emblem of power. 1 Cor. i. 17, 18. 
Offensive to some. Gal. vi. 12 ; Phil. iii. 18* 
The glory of the Christian. Gal. vi. 14. 

(One verse " In the Cross of Christ I glory.") 
Christ sets it as an emblem of self denial and burden-bearing for him. Matt. xyi. 24 ; Luke 

XI V. 27. 
The believer's crucifixion. Gal. v. 24. 

(One verse, "The consecrated Cross I'll bear.") 

THE CROWN. 

Emblem of rank in Aaronic priesthood. Ex; xxix. 6. 

Emblem of holy consecration. (Notice the writing '' engraved") Ex. xxxix. 30. 

Jesus wore only one crown on earth— of thorns. John xix. 2, 5. 

But his true followers shall have crowns of righteousness. 2 Tim, iv, 8. 

And of life. James i. 12 ; Rev. ii. 10, last clause. 

A glorious crown. 1 Peter v. 4. 

Incorruptible. 1 Cor. ix. 25. 

Warning ! Rev. iii. 11. 

(One verse, " O that with yonder sacred throng.") 

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40 BIBLE READINGS. 

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER'S EXEMPLAR. 

Arranged by R. H. Gilmore, Cedar Rapidb, Iowa. 



Song. Gospel Songs, 2d Hymn, vs. 1, 3. 

Exemplar not only in general, but in detail. What has he directed? Matt. xi. 29. (1) "Learn of 
me." Teacher should learn. (2) Work and learn in humble manner and place. (3) Restful 
to work, Jesus being yoke-fellow. 

^arly in Life, he becomes our Exenfiplar, Luke ii. 49. Engaged in the "Father's Business." 
What was the Nature of the Business ? Luke xix. 10. Seeking and saving the lost. That is the 

" object of the Sunday School." 
Faith in child conversion. (Children brought to him. Older Cliristians ranked, they having no 

faith in child Christians.) Matt. xix. 14. Suffer; forbid not, let them come. 

Song. Gospel Hymns, No. 11, 2d verse. 

Me won by Love. (St. John gives the proper injunction.) 1 John iii. 18. (1) Loving in words easy. 

(2) Love from the heart needed. (3) Love prompts sacrifice of time, money, ease. 
ijfenuine Love shows itself in Sympathy. ('*He had a feelinc- for our infirmities.") John xi. 

33-35. (1) Give expression to sympathy and love. (2) Be not ashamed of manly tears. 

(3) Put yourself in scholar's place. 

Song. Gospel Hymns, No. 56, 1st verse. 

Poor success without Patience. ( Peter speaking of patience in sufiEering for well-doing.) 1 Peter 
ii. 21, 23, (1) Patiently labor, reward coming. (2) Society in heaven with saved scholars. 

Song. Gospel Songs, No. 114, all the verses. 

Sunday School on the brain. Energy born of zeal, John ii. 17. Absorbed in the work. 

Tenaciously aggressive. 
Cultivate the social. Visit scholars at their homes. Invite yourself to go. Luke xix. 5. 

Zaccheus not presume to invite Jesus, balvation came to whole family. 

Song. Gospel Songs, page 78, 1st verse. 

Entertain them, either at your homes., by basket pic-nics, or otherwise. Matt. xv. 35, In such 

entertainment " give thanks," and forget not the spiritual lessons. 
Pray for them. John xvii. 11. Prayer for his own. Prayer for unity. 

Song. Gospel Hymns, No, 11, 1st verse. 

Teach scholars to pray. How? What for? Luke xi. 1. Chant " Lord's Prayer,' or all repeat 
together. Matt. vi. 9-13. 



SONG AND BIBLE SERVICE. 41 

SONG AND BIBLE SERVICE— THE PRODIGAL SON. 

Arranged by R. H. Gilmore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Prayer. (Short.) 

Gospel Hymns, No. 89, "Yield not to temptation." (2 verses.) 

Luke XV. 11-13. Riotous living. 

Gospel Hymns, No. 79, " What shall the harvest be? " (verses 3, 4.) 

Luke XV. 14-16. Fain eat husks. 

Gospel Hymns, No. 38, Solo, *' The Prodigal Child." (All the verses.) 

Luke XV. 17-19. Humble. 

Gospel Hymns, No. 54, "Just as I am." (3 verses.) 

Prayer. (Very short.) 

Luke XV. 20, 21. Father's greeting. 

Gospel Hymns, No. 95, ''Yes, there is pardon for you." (Verses 1, 3.) 

Luke XV. 22-24. The rejoicing. 

Gospel HjTnns, No. 19, " Ring the bells of Heaven." (Ail the verses.) 

Luke XV. 25-32. Father to dutiful son. 

Gospel Hymns, No. 6, "The ninety-and-nine." (Sing all verses in Blips' tune.) 

Prayer. (Short.) 



BIBLE READING— SERVICE OF SONG. 

By Philip Phillips. 

Sing. " I will sing for Jesus." 

1. The Word of God.— Vs. cxix. 11 ; Luke xi. 28; Ps. cxix. 16; Heb. ii. 1; Ps. cxix. 72; Ps. xix. 10; 

Ps. cxix. 103; Job xxiii. 12; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. 

Sing, " Precious Name." 

2. Sin, and its cwr^.— Isa. liii. 6; John iii. 16; Isa. i. 5, 6; Mark ii. 17; Gal. v. 19-24: Rom. iii. 23; 

Rom. vi. 23; Rom. v. 12; 1 Tim, i. 15. 

Sing, " Come, ye disconsolate," 

3. Gospel Invitations.— Iss.. Iv. 1; Isa. Iv. 3; Rev. xxii. 17: Matt. xi. 28; John vi. 37; Luke ix. 9; 

Isa. i. 18; Isa. xlv. 22; Rev. iii. 20; 2 Cor. vi. 8. 

Sing. " Almost Persuaded." 

4. Heaven,— 2 Cor. v, 1; John xiv. 2; Revelation vii. 13-17: Rev. xxi. 27; Rev. xxi. 23; Ps. xvi. 11; 

Rev. xxi. 7. 

Sing- '* Nearer, my God, to Thee." 



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AN ADDR8SS BY D. L. MOODY, DELIVERED TN LONDON, ENO. 



I want to call your attention to the word ** Grace." It is one of the words in the English lan- 
guage that is very little understood. I have seldom found an inquirer who really understood the 
meaning of the word. When we talk to the anxious, almost the first thing they say is that they 
are not worthy. These are the very ones with whom the Lord deals in grace. The word grace 
means "undeserved mercy," ''unmerited favor." I think it would do us good sometimes to go to 
the dictionary and find out the meaning of those words we hear in church four or five times in 
every sermon. I have no doubt I heard the word a thousand times before I knew the meaning of 
it. The very meaning of the word throws a flood of light into the soul. As long as men try to 
make out that they are worthy to receive anything from God, they will never get a crumb from God's 
table. But the moment a man takes his place as a poor miserable unworthy wretch, then God can 
deal in grace with him. 

In the first place, let us find out the source of this stream that has been flowing so freely for the 
last 1800 years, and of which so many have drunk and lived. Men are verj' anxious just now to 
find out the source of the Nile; my friends, it is good deal more important to find out the source 
of this wonderful stream of grace. 

Turn with me to John i. 14. '^And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. . . .full of 
grace and truth." There never was but one man on earth who was *' full of grace and truth ;" that 
was the Man Christ Jesus, the God-Man. He was so full of grace that when the poor woman who 
had the issue of blood touched his garment grace flowed right out, and she was healed. If there is 
any poor sin-sick soul here to-daj^ if you will only come in contact with Him, you can be saved this 
very minute. There will be virtue coming forth from Him that will heal you. 

Verse 17. "Tlie law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." No one 
was ever saved by the law. It was never given to save us by; it never did, nor never can save any 
one. It was given to show man his need of grace. 

Rom. V. 15. "For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, 
and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many." Some one 
has spoken of the great mystery of sin coming into the world, and our dear friend and laborer in 
the vineyard— and I think a man who has been used of God as much as any I have met in Scotland 
(Dr. Bonar)- says it is a greater mystery still that the Son of God came down to earth and bore 
the brunt of it. He tasted death for us, and took our sins away; He became the so\irce of grace 
and also the channel for the blessing of God to flew in. 

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GRACE. 43 

1 Cor. i. 3, 4. "Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the LfOrd Jesus 
Christ. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus 
Christ." The thought that I want to bring out here is, that it is a free gift. God gave Him up 
freely for us all ; and if it is a gift, then we must receive it as a gift. Men talk about grace, but I 
don't think that in our dealings with each other we know much about it. Suppose I go to the 
Bank and borrow ;^1000 for thirty days, they make me give them my note of hand which reads 
something like this: "Thirty days after date, I promise to pay," etc. They give me " three days of 
grace," as it is called, but they make me pay interest for it. And if I do not pay, they will sell my 
goods in order that they may be paid. Why, there is no grace in it at all. If it was grace, they 
would give me principal and interest too; that is grace. But that is about all men know of grace; 
it is about as near as they get to it. But the God of all grace gives us freely— gives us all, without 
money and w-ithout price. 

Looking at Matt. xxi. 28-32. The great truth taught here is, that those who believed the gospel 
were saved. The publicans and harlots, the vilest men and women who lived while Christ was on 
earth, all who would come and take the grace that was offered to them, would be saved. The 
whole Jewish nation just stumbled upon this one thing, self-righteousness. As I tried to prove 
the other day, the greatest enemy we have is this miserable self-righteousness. I would to God He 
would strip us of every rag of it to-day. Those Jews went about to establish their own righteous- 
ness. Tliey said, "We are of the seed of Abraham ; we believe in Moses and the law. We are a good 
deal better than the nations round about us !" And Christ could not deal in grace with them at 
all. They v>^ere very religious men ; in fact they were the most religious people of the day. They 
went to all the services, and made long prayers, and yet Christ says to them boldly, " The publi- 
cans and Imrlots go into the kingdom of God before you." Why ? Because they repented, and took 
took salvation as a free gift. 

It is so now. Very often, when you go to preach to people, they begin to draw their filthy rags 
of self -righteousness around them, and they say, ''Oh yes; that is very good for drunkards and 
thieves, but not for us. We are educated people ; we are refined ; we go to church every Sunday ; 
we say our prayers." But that is all. They have all the forms, but not the living Christ. Here is 
a poor, miserable, fallen one, who takes salvation as a gift. That is the lesson taught to us here- 
one of the hardest lessons we can learn. A great many are trying to work their way into the king- 
dom of God. A man said he had been forty-two years lea^ruing three things — first that he could do 
nothing towards his salvation : second, that God did not require him to do anything ; and, third, 
that Christ had done it all Himself. 

The self-righteous men and women do not beheve that. Many of you will say, "What kind of 
doctrine is it that that American is preaching ?" A man went down to the East-end last Sunday 
night to hear me preach. I was trying to convince them that salvation was a free gift. He said to 
the friend who took him down, "It was a very strange doctrine to preach, that a man could be 
saved so easily, and without doing anything." But if I understand my Bible, it is "to him that 
worketh not, but believeth." These are the very things that are keeping men out of the kingdom 
of God. When Christ died on the cross. He said, "It is finished," and He meant what He said. 
All we have- to do is to take salvation as a gift. 

Yes, but you say. What about the passage where it says, * Work out your own salvation with 
fear and trembling?" Well, you must have it before you can work it out. If I say to my boy, 
"You are going to Paris; here is ^], 000 for you; see that you take ;are of it." He would say, 
"But I must have it before I can take care of it." Or if I ask him to work out a piece of land, and 
to till it, and care for it, I must first give him the piece of land. 



44 BIBLE READING.;. 

Turn to Mark vii. 24. *'And trcm. thence He arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon 
and entered into a liouse, and would have no man know it ; but He colM not be hid." He was so 
full of yrace and truth tliat it would flow out. When a man is full of grace and truth, he can't be 
hid. The light will shine out of itself ; you do not have to make it shine. " For a certain woman, 
etc.. ..it is not meet to take the children's bread and to cast it unto the dogs." Dogs! If that 
woman had beeii like a great many at the present day, she would have been greatly offended. 
** What ! you call me a Gentile dog ! I know of some of the seed of Abraham who live down in my 
neighbourhood, a good deal worse than I am. There is a Jewish woman next door does a good 
many things I would not do. To be sure I am a Gentile ; but I am a good deal better than a good 
many Jews." That is the way many women speak now ; the result is, they never get the blessing 
What did this woman do? " She answered and said, Yes, Lord : yet the dogs under the table eat 
of the children's crumbs." She took her place as a poor miserable dog. Anything, so that she 
should get the blessing she asked for. My friends, a crumb from God's table is a thousand times 
better than all the devil ever gave you. She took her place at His feet, and He said unto her, 
" For this saying, go thy way, the devil is gone out of ihy daughter." She got more than she 
asked for ; she only aslvcd a crumb, and she got a. whole loaf. You will find that all through the 
three years Christ was down here, He was trying to teach the Jews the great lesson of Grace, but 
they never understood it. Here was a poor woman who came and put herself in the place of a 
poor, miserable, lost one, who wanted a favour from Him. And how quickly He granted it. I 
will challenge you to find any man or woman who ever came to Christ, and made out that they 
were unworthy, but He blessed them at once. 

Turn to the 7th chapter of Luke; tliere you have the same lesson. *' When He had ended all 
his sayings in the audience of the people. He entered into Capernaum. And a certain centurion's 
servant, who was dear unto him, was sick and ready to die." You know how, when people are in 
distress, and burdened, then they go to the Lord and cry unto Him. "And when he heard of 
Jesus, he sent unto Him the elders of the Jews, beseeching Him that He would come and heal his 
servant. And when they came to Jesus, they besought Him instantly, saying that he was worthy 
for whom He should do this : for he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue." It is 
the same old story that we hear now. This man was worthy because he had built them a synagogue. 
So to-day they say, **Ohyes, he is a very good man; he built a church; of course he will get to 
heaven. He built a cathedral not long ago, and endowed colleges and seminaries." They don't say 
how he made the money. Perhaps it was by distilling whiskey and ruining men's souls. But 
nevertheless, he is worthy ; the Lord is under obligations to him. 

That a man should give away large sums of money may be very good in its place, but if it 
means that a man is not to take the gift of God as a poor beggar, it all goes for nought. God won't 
accept it. A lady told me she did not believe what I teach, that we are saved for nothing. She 
had an uncle who had given a great deal of moi^ey, and endowed schools, and built churches; and, 
although he was not a Christian, and did not make any profession ; although he did not believe 
in Christ as a Saviour, she believed he had a right to demand a seat in heaven. She was more hon- 
est than a good many people. If they don't say it right out, they believe they have a right to de- 
mand a seat in heaven. So those Jews asked Jesus to leave his work and go instantly, as this cen- 
turion was worthy, and had built them a synagogue. 

Jesus went with them. It seemed as if He was going to do what they wished. But, bear in 
mind, the Lord knew a good deal more about the centurion than the Jews did. " Lord, trouble not 
thyself, for / am not tvorthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof." The centurion tells a 



GRACE. 45 

different story about himself, and he knew his own heart better than the Jews did. Tiicre \, as 
faith and humility for you ! " Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to como unto Thee but 
say in a word, and my servant shall be healed." When a man speaks well of himself, no one else 
will speak very well of him. But when a man has got to know the true state oi h.s own heart he 
will not be talking about how worthy he is. He feels he is a poor, miserable, vile wretch, ond 
down in the dust he comes; then God can meet him. '*! say unto you I have not found so o-reat 
faith, no not in Israel." This centuiion did not belong to the seed of Abraham; here the Lord found 
another poor Gentile outside of the house of Israel who understood whatj grace was. And He 
turned to these Jews and just held him up to them and preached the gospel. Here is a man who 
understood what he must do to find favor with the Lord. God could deal in grace with him and 
He blessed him there. He got all he asked for. And so, my friends, if you want to be saved, 
make out that you are not worthy. Do not come as the Pharisee we were talking of yesterday, 
and say how good you are, and how righteous you are. But the moment yuu come to God as a 
poor, miserable, lost sinner, you can take salvation as a gift. 

1 want to prove to you from Scripture, and I think I can, that we are saved without works. 
I know how people cling to the doctrine of salvation by works. I know some of you will go away 
and say I have been preaching false doctrine. Let us turn to the law and the testimony. If I do 
not preach according to the Word of God, do not believe a word I say ; but if it is according to this 
Word, I have aright to demand that you believe it. England professes to believe the Bible, and 
Ehigland has done more for the Bible than all the other nations of the earth. I believe that is why 
God has blessed England so; and every Englishman ought to stand by the Word of God. I am glad 
to see so many of you bring your Bibles with you. 

Eph. ii. 8. *'By grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of 
God. Not of works, lest any man should boast." There is no chance for boasting, or for a man 
to work his way up to heaven. A Scotchman said it took tw^o to convert him. How was that? It 
took the Lord and himself. What did he do ? He fought against God all he could, and God did 
all the rest. Yes, God does it all. I never saw a man who could say that he had ever done any- 
thing toward his ov\'n salvation. 

2 Tim. i. 9. *' Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our w^oii s, 
but according to his ow^n purpose and grace, w^hich was given us in Christ Jesus before the worll 
began." Not according to our works. He calls on men to come, works or no works. Tliey don't 
come in at all; our works don't help tow^ard our salvation. 

Rom. xi. 6. "If by grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace." 
Don't you see, if it is grace, if it is a gift, then it cannot be by works. I hire a man to dig in 
my garden for a day, and at its close give him eight shillings; the man has earned it. He goes 
home, and his wife says, "Where did you get that money?" He says, *'I worked for it." But 
suppose another man comes to me and says, "I have been sick for the last six w^eeks, and un- 
able to work; my family are suffering for want of food," and I give him eight shillings. The one 
is a gift; the other is not. Now God is a Sovereign; Heisnotdowni here selling salvation — offer- 
ing you salvation if you will pay something for it. W^hat can you offer to the King of kings? What 
have you got that God will accept ? Nothing but your sins. 

Suppose some great wealthy sovereign, such as the Queen of England, should offer you some 
valuable present, and you did not like to take it without making some acknowledgement ; and 
suppose you vrere to offer the Queen a penny for her present. What a ridiculous idea— offering 
Her Majesty a penny ! My friends, it would be a great deal better to do that than to try and 



46 BIBLE READINGS. 

offer God anything to save you. If He saves you, it will be as a sovereign. He will be under 
no obligation, but He will give salvation right out of His heart. He wants to give it to every 
soul here to-day. The question is, will you have it or reject it? 

I can imagine some of you say, "I don't think a person can be saved without being baptized 
and partaking of the Lord's Supper." God forbid that I should say anything against any church 
ordinances ; they are all right in their own place. But I want to say, and I want you to understand 
that Baptism and the Lord's Supper have nothing to do with salvation as a gift. We must first of 
all be saved before we begin to work ; after that you can work day and night. You cannot work 
too hard then ; but you must work from the cross, not towards it. As long as you are working to 
be saved, you are trying to add something to the finished work of Jesus. My friends, keep your 
hands off the cross. If God is satisfied, surely you ought to be satisfied. Salvation is distinct and 
separate from all church ordinances. The last man whom Christ saved before he expired on the 
cross was that poor thief. He had a nail through each of his hands ; he could not work for his 
salvation. He had a great nail through both his feet ; he could not run on any errands for the 
Lord. When he had the use of his feet, they were swift to shed blood ; and when he had the use 
of his hands, they were doing the devil's service. He could not have been baptized; there was not 
a man m Judea who would have baptized him. As he hung there by the Saviour's side, he cried 
out, **Lord, remember me." That prayer was right to the point. I hope there will be some who 
will make that prayer to-day. Don't be looking round to see how it suits your neighbours ; take it 
home to yourself. To-day let the prayer go up from your hearts, "Lord, remember me.'" No one 
gets salvation till they come down to this point. That prayer fell on the ears of the Son of God 
and immediately there came the answer, ''This day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." Christ 
snatched him from the jaws of death, from the grasp of the devil, and took him into Paradise with 
Him. He was never baptized, nor partook of the Lord's Supper. Perhaps he could not even see 
Christ; but he could hear Him when He prayed, ** Father, forgive them, for they know not what 
they do." Perhaps he thought to himself, "I want an interest in that prayer," and he cried out, 
** Lord, remember me." He only asked to be remembered, but Christ took him into Paradise with 
Him. He was not ashamed to walk arm-in-arm with the poor thief through Paradise. If there is 
a poor lost sinner here to-day, Christ is able and willing to save you ; He will save you now, if you 
will let Him, He wants to save you now. 

The gift of salvation is offered to you to-day, without money and without price. What are you 
going to do with it ? It will be a terrible thing for any one to go down to hell from England, the 
land of an open Bible, that speaks of the free gift — a land where the gospel is proclaimed more 
faithfully than in most other parts of the world. My friends, your hell will be two hells. To-day 
while God is offering you this gift, is pressing it upon you, open your heart and say, "Come in, 
blessed Saviour, come in. Thou God of all grace, take up thy abode in my heart !" and He will 
come. 

One more passage before I close. Titus ii. 11. " For the grace of God that bringeth salvation 
hath appeared to all men." Hath appeared to all men. I do not see what a man is going to say 
if he goes down to death without salvation. Tliat verse will blaze out before the throne of God, 
If men are lost, it will be because they spurn the gift of God. Did you ever stop to think what it 
cost God to redeem us? To be sure, salvation is as free as the very air, but it cost God the Son of 
His bosom. Look at that scene at Calvary, the Son of God dying there, and God looking down 
from heaven. Nay, He refused to look upon Him. He turned away His face. There He was, 
smitten for you and me. "God gave Him up freely for us all." What shall we do with Him? 



GRACE. 47 

We must do one of two things — receive Him or reject Him. If we reject Him, He will reject us. If 
we receive Him here, He will receive us yonder. If we make room for Him here, He will make 
room for us in the many mansions. He will remember us when we come into that world of liofht, 
if we will only receive Him here. What will you do with Christ? Just receive him as He is offered 
to you. If I should say, " If any one here would like this Bible, I will make them a present of it," 
there is no man or woman here but could rise and come forward and take it. That httle boy, that 
little girl, that aged mother, could do it. Let me tell you, the gift of God is offered just as freely. 
Will you have Him? It seems to me the grace of God ought to break every heart here to-day. 

I was talking to a mother in the inquiry-room the other night, and she said God would not for- 
gfive her. "Are you sure?" I said. ** Yes, He will not forgive me, because I am such a sinner ;" 
and she was weeping bitterly. I said, "Are you a mother?" ''I am." "Well, supposing you had 
got a prodigal child, who had run away from home. If he should come back at midnight and knock 
at the door, and you should hear his voice, and go to the door, and he should say, * Mother, I havo 
done wrong, but now I have come home to ask you to forgive me; will you forgive me?' What 
would you do? Would you push him out and lock the door?" " Oh no, I would be very glad to 
get him back." "Well, do you think you are more merciful than your God? Do you think God 
is willing to save you ?" She brushed away the tears, and she said, " Is that it ? " Down she went 
on her knees: her tears were wiped away, and she went away with her face lit up at the thought 
that Christ was her Saviour. 

Will you receive or reject Him to-day ? 



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GOD'S THOUGHTS OF OUR SINS. 

1. 3fa7i wholly a sinner.— Genesis vi. 5 ; Ps. xiv. 2, 3 ; Ps. Iviii. 3 ; Eccles. viii. 11 ; Jer. xvii. 9; 

Matt. XV. 18-20; Rom. viii. 7. 8. 

2. Mail a guUty sinner.— Gen. iii. 8-11 ; Isaiah Ixiv. 6; Rom. iii. 19; Rom. iii. 23; Rom. v. 12-14: 

Gal. iii 22. 

3. 3fati a condemned sinner. — Gen. iv. 10-12; Ps. xxxii. 1; Gen. ix. 6; John xv. 22; John iii. 19, 20; 

Rom. i. 18 ; John xvi. 9. 

4. Man a pardoned sinner. — Isaiah i. 18; Isaiah iv. 7 ; Luke xxiv. 47 : Heb. viii. 12; Rom. viii. 1, 2. 

5. Man a forgiven sinner. — Ps. cxxx. 4 ; 2 Sam. xii. 13, Ps. Ixxxv. 2 ; 1 John ii. 12. 

6. Man a redeemed siwier.— Isaiah xliii. 1 ; Isaiah xliv. 22; Eph. i. 7; 1 Cor. i. 30; Heb. ix. 12. 

7. Man a saved sinner.— 5o\m iii. 14, 15; John iii. 16; John iii. 17; John iii. 18; John iii. 36. 

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ETERNAL FUTURE PUNISHMENT. 

1. A Day of Judgment.— kets xvii. 30; 2 Peter ii. 9; Jude 14, 15; Rev. xi. 18; Rev. xx. 12, 13. 

2. Doom of the wicked.— Vs. xi. 5, 6; Mai. iv. 1 ; Matt. vii. 22, 23 ; 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10 ; Matt. xiii. 40-42; 

Matt. XXV. 45, 46; Luke xiii. 25-27. 

3. Terror of the IFic^ed.— Heb. x. 31: Rev. vi. 15-17. 

4. Separation of ivicked from just.—Usitt. xiii. 47-50; Matt. xxv. 32, 33; Rev. xxii. 11. 

5. Anguish of wicked.— M&tt. xxv. 30; Luke xvi. 22-24; Luke xvi. 25, 26. 

6. Punishment final and eternal— 2iiiitt. ^il 32; Luke iii. 17; Mark ix. 45, 46; 2 Thess. i. 7- 9 ; 

Rev. xiv. 9-11. 

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SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE FACT AND USE OF 
THE COMING OF THE LORD. 

1. Its importance.— M.3itt. xxiii, 39; Matt. xxiv. 42; Matt. xxiv. 44; Matt. xxv. 13; Mark xiii. 33-37; 

Luke xii. 35, 36; Luke xxi. .36 ; Acts i. 11. 

2. General object of hope. — John xix 25-27: Isaiah xxv. 9; Titus ii 13; 1 Peter i. 13; 2 Tim. v. 8. 

3. Motive to activity and holiness.— Luke ix. 26; Phil. iii. 20; Phil. iv. 5; Col. iii. 4, 5; 1 Tim.vi. 14; 

1 Peter v. 4 ; Titus ii. 12, 13 ; Heb. x. 37 ; James v. 7, 8 ; 2 Peter iii. 10, H; Luke xix. 12, 13; 

2 Peter iii 14 ; Revelation ii. 25 ; Rev. iii. 11; Rev. xvi. 15; 1 Thess. iii. 12, 13; 1 John ii. 28: 
1 John iii. 2, 3: 1 Thess. iv. 14: 1 Cor. i. 7, 8: 1 Thess. v. 4-6. 

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BIBLE READINGS. 49 

STEWARDSHIP. 

1. What entrusttd.— Luke xix. 13; Acts xx. 28; Col. i. 25-29; Col. iv. 17; 1 Thess. ii. 4; 1 Pet. iv. 10. 

2. Why entrxistecl— Luke xix. 15; Luke xii. 42 ; 1 Cor. x. 31; Eph. iv. 11, 12. 

3. Hoio to use it.~l Cor. iv. 13; Luke xvi. 9; 2 Cor. xii. 19; 1 Cor. x. 33; Titusi. 7; Heb. xiii. 17. 

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THE PRAYER OF FAITH. 

1. state of /tear*.— Helplessness, Matt. xv. 25. Need, Matt. xiv. 30. Want, Acts x-i. 30. Distance, 

Luke xviii. 13. Guilt, Luke xv. 21. Condemnation, Ps. li. 4. Defilement, Luke v. 8. 

2. Lookiw) to the Lord.— To Jesus the Person, Heb. xii. 2. The able Saviour, Heb. vii. 25. The 

willing Saviour, Matt. viii. 3. The near Saviour, Heb. x. 22. Jesus, our Sacrifice, 1 Cor. v. 7, 
Jesus our Substitute, 2 Cor. v. 21. Jesus, our Sauctification, 1 Cor. i. 30. 

3. Confession.— Oi sin, Ps. li. 5. Of sins, Ps. li.3. Of specific sins, 1 John i. 9. Of besetting sins, 

Heb. xii. 1. Of past sins, Ps. xxv. 7. Of presumptuous sins, Ps. xv. 3, Of secret sins, 
Ps. xix. 12. 

4. Supplication.— For pardon, Ps. li. 7. For purity, Ps. li. 10. For the Spirit, Eph. iii. 16. For 

Christ's indwelling, Eph. iii. 17, 1st clause. For Knowledge, Ephesians iii. 19. For saints, 
Eph. vi. 18. For fellow-men, Rom. x. 1. 

5. Intercessions.— Qi the Spirit, Rom. viii. 26. For others, 1 Tim. ii. 1. For the word, 2 Thess. iii. 1. 

For the church, Ps. cxxii. G. For ministers, Eph. vi. 19. In the Spirit, Jude £0. Through 
Christ, 1 John ii. 1, 2. 

6. Expectation of Faith.— Lougmg, Ps. Ixi. 1. Promise of help, Ps. xci. 14. Promise of deliverance, 

Psa. xci. 15. Promise of comfort, Ps. Ix. 15. Promise of rest, Matt. xi. 28. Promise of gifts, 
Matt. vii. 7. Satisfaction of ail desires, Matt. xi. 24. 

7. Importunity.— Constojitj, 2 Chron. xv. 2, last half. Delight, Psa. xxxvii. 5. Complete confi- 

dence, Ps. xxxvii. 5. Continuance, Luke xviii. 1; 1 Thess. v. 17. Persistence, Gen.xxxii. 26. 
Repetition, 2 Cor. xii. 8, 9. Assurance, John xv, 7. 

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NOW. 

1. Its messages to the unsaved.— Ei^h. ii. 2; John xv. 22 ; Acts xvii. 30 ; 2 Cor. vi. 2; John iv. 23 and 

V. 35; Acts xxii. 16; Acts xxiv. 25, as resulting in Luke xvi. 25. 

2. The believer's '' now" blessed7iess. —Uom. viii. 1, cf. Rom. vii. 6; Rom. v. 9, cf. Rom. iii. 24: 

Rom. vi. 7, marg., Rom. x. 5; 2 Cor. v. 21 ; Eph. ii. 13, Col. i. 21; 1 John iii. 1. 

3. Our ^* now" experience. — 1 Cor. xiii. 12; Luke vi. 21. For why we weep, see Luke xxii. 62 

Heb. xi. 16; Luke v. 35; Isaiah liii. 3 ; Acts xx. 31 ; Mark x. 30. 

4. What we are ''now" to do.— Col. iii. 8; Rom. vi. 19; Gal. ii. 20; 2 Cor. viii. 11; Rom. xiii. 11 



1 John ii. 28. 



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THE TWO YOKES. 

1. The Yoke of Sm.— Deut. xxviii.47, 48; 1 Kings xii. 3, 4, 14. 

2. Ghd removing the heavy Yoke.—ljev. xxvi. 13; Isaiah ix. 4; Hoseaxi. 4, 

3. God giving a light and easy Fo^e,- Matt, xi 29, 30. W. P. G. 

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50 BIBLE READINGS. 

SEVEN CHARACTERISTIC NAMES OF GOD. 

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our God, the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham 
Isaac and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God of Hosts, the God of heaven, has revealed 
Himself : 

A God of Knowledge, 1 Samuel ii. 3. 

The God of Love, 2 Cor. xiii. 11. 

The God of all Grace, 1 Peter v. 10. 

The God of Peace, Heb. xiii. 20. 

The God of Patience and ConsolatioD, R^rv). xv. 6. 

The God of Hope, Rom. xv. 3. 

The God of Glorv, Acts vii. 2. 

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ABLE. 

Matt. iii. 7-12. Special advantages for salvation unreliable, verses 8, 10. Special disadvantages no 

hindrance to God; cf. Matt, xix 23-26; Isaiah Ixiii. 1. 
Dan. iii. 13-18; vi. 18-24. God is "able" to deliver from the furnace heat and from the lion's mouth. 
Heb. ii. 18, cf . Rom. xiv. 4. Able to succour chem that are tempted. 

Acts XX. 32. We have no need to remain " one story Christians." God by His Word is able to 
build us up. 

2 Cor. ix. 8. He is able to make all grace abound. 

2 Tim. i. 11; Jude 24; cf. Rom. viii. 30. Able to keep. 

Heb. vii. 24, 25; cf. John xiii. 1. '* Unto the uttermost." 

Phi], iii. 21. He will transform us bodily as well as spiritually into His own imag-e, when He 

comes, according to the working whereby He is able to subdue all things to himself, cf. 

Eph. iii. 20, "able to do exceeding abundantly " as interpreted by Eph. i. 19, 2; . 

Rom. iv. 21; Heb. xi. 19. Able to perform all He has promised. 

Matt. ix. 27-30; Matt. viii. 2. God's power willingly placed at the disposal of man's need. Only 
believe. 

Matthew x. 24-31. The word of warning; cf. 2 Thess. i. 9; Luke xvi. 19-31; Rev. xx. 10, 14, 15; 
Mark ix. 42-48. 

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STEADFASTNESS. 

1. Scripture enforcing this duty. — Matt. x. 22; John xv. 4; Gal.^vi. 9; Heb. x. 35-39; Rev. ii. 10; 

Rev. iii. 11. 

2. Why ive need to be steadfast,— Matthew x. IT, 18; Matt. xiii. 20-22; Gal. v. 16, 17; Eph. vi. 12; 

Matt. xxvi. 41. 

3. Illustratio7is of steadfastness.— M&tihew vii. 24, 25; Eph. iv. 13, 14; Eph. vi. 13-15; Phil. i. 27; 

Phil. iii. 13, 14; Heb. xii. 1; Heb. vi. 19. 

4. Examples of steadfastness.— Judges viii. 4; Genesis xlix. 22-24; Heb. xi. 13; Numbers xiv. 24; 

Numbers xxxii. 12; Joshua xxiv. 15; Ruth i. 14-18; 2 Kings xxii. 2; Job ii. 3; Job xxvii. 5, 6; 
Dan. i. 8; Dan. vi. 10; Dan. iii. 18; Acts ii. 41, 42; Acts xx. 22-24; Luke ix. 51. 

5. How promote steadfastness.— J oh xvii. 9; Psalm cxix. 11; John xvii. 15, 17; Eph. iv. 15, 16; 

Eph. vi. 10-18; Heb. xiii. 7-9; 2 Thess. ii. 15-17. 

6. Prayer for steadfastness.— 1 John v. 14, 15; Eph. vi. 18; 1 Thess. v. 23; Eph, iii. 13-21. 

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BIBLE READINGS. 51 

THE BELIEVER'S POSITION. 

1. What we were.—l Pet. ii. 10; Eph. ii.l2, 13; Rom. v. 8, 10, 6; Eph. ii. 3, 1. 

2. What ice are.— Eph. ii. 13, 8; 1 John iii. 2;1 Pet. ii. 9, 10; Eph. iv. 30; 1 Cor.ri. 11; 1 Cor. iii. 23; 

Rom. vii. 14; Eph. ii. 20; 1 Pet. i. 5. 

3. What we are not. — 1 Cor. vi. 10; Rom. vi. 14; Rom. viii. 9, 12. 

4. What we A:?i02^.— Romans vii. 18; 2 Timothy 1. 12; 1 John iii. 14; Rom. viii. 28 (26) ; 2 Cor. v. 1; 

1 John iii. 2, 

5. What loe Aaye.— Eph. i. 7; ii. 18; 1 John v. 13; ii. 1, 20; 2 Pet. i. 19; Heb. vi. 19. 
8. What we shall &e.— Col, iii, 4; 1 John iii. 2. 

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SEEK THE LORD ! 

1. Why"} — Because he made us, Ps. c. 3. Because he loved us, 1 John iv. 19. Because he invites 

us, Matt. xi. 28. Because he is the only Saviour, Acts iv. 12. 

2. Far lohat ? — For salvation, Isaiah xlv. 22. For his presence, Amos v. 14. For his watchcare, 

Isaiah xxxiv. 10, For eternal life, Rom. ii. 7. 

3. How ? — Diligently, Luke xv. 8. As for hid treasure, Prov. ii. 4; Matthew xiii. 46. By prayer, 

Dan. ix 3. With all your heart. Jer. xxix. 13. With intense desire, Ps. Jxiii. 1. 
i. When ? — Wnile he may be found, Isaiah Iv. 6. Early, Prov. viii. 17. While yet young, 2 Chron, 
xxxiv. 3, To-day, Heb. iii. 15. Now, 2 Cor. vi. 2. FIRST THING you do, Matt. vi. 33. 

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GOSPEL ARITHMETIC. 

Addition.— 2 Peter i. 5-7. 
Subtraction. — 1 Peter ii. 1, 2. 
Multiplication. — 2 Peter i. 2. 
Division. — 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18. 
Result,— "H Peter i. 8, 9. 



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TWO WAYS, OR THE CONTRAST. 

John xiv. 6. Acts xiii. 8-10. 

Heb. X. 20. Matt. xxiv. 38, 39. 

Heb. i. 1. Heb. i. 2. 

Rom. V. 1,2. • Isaiah Mi. 20,^1. 

Rom. viii. 1. Rom. viii. 5-8, 

John X. 9. John x. 1. 

Rom. i. 1. Acts viii. 3. 

Matt. vii. 14. Matt. vii. 13 

Dan. vi. 3, 4, 10. 1 Kings x-v. 30-33 

1 Kings xviii. 36-38. 1 Kings xviii. 26-28. 

2 Pet. iii. 11-14. 2 Pet. ii. 1, 2, 3, 12, 15. 

(The passages to be read opposite each other.) 



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52 BIBLE READINGS. 

GOSPEL RAIL ROAD. 

T?ie iJoaci.— Graded by God our Heavenly Father, Isaiah xxxv. 8-10; Isaiah xl. 3-6; Isaiah Ixii. 10; 

Luke iii. 6. 
Tfu. Track.— Jesus, John xiv. 6. 
The Car.— Our Saviour, John x. 9; Acts iv. 12. 

The C(y)iductor.— Our Heavenly Father, Ps.xxxi. 2, 3, 6; Ps. xxxii. 8; Ps. xxxiii. 18-20. 
The Engine.— Our Faith, 1 Pet. i. 5; Heb. xi. 6, 33, 34, 39. 
The Engineer.— The iioly Spirit, John xiv. 26: John xv. 26; John xvi. 13. 
The Headlight.— The word of God, "Bible," Ps. cxix. 105; John xvii. 17. 
The Bridges.— God's presence ever witli us, Isaiah xliii. 2-5; Ps. xxiii. 
The Red Light.- -GolVs warnings of danger, Matthew vii. 13, 14; Matthew x, 28; Psalm ix. W; 

Ezek. xviii. 30-32; Ezek xxxiii. 11. 
The Depot.— T^e Holy City, Heaven, Rev. xxi. 2, 22-27. 
The Journey ended.— Rest at last, Rev. xxi. 3, 4; Rev. xxii. 3, 4, 5, 14. 
The Travelers.— ''^2i\e6. by Grace," Ezek. xxxiv. 24-28; Rev. vii. 9-17. 
All are invited to get on &o«r(?.— Matt. xi. 28-30; Rev. xxii. 17. 
r/if Insurance.— '1^0 smash ups," Ps. xci. 10-14; Ps. xxxiv. 7; Isaiah xxiv. 8. 

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PERSONALITY OF GOD. 

1. Assertion of Himself.— Gen. xvii. 1; Exodus xxxiv. 5, 6; Isaiah xiv. 22; Mai. iii. 6; John x. 30; 

Acts V. 3, 4; 1 John v. 20. 

2. Expression of Himself— Fs. cxix. 9, 11, 105; Gen. xv. 1; Jonah i. 1; John i. 1-4. 

3. Form, essential to our conception of personality . —Gen. i. 26, 1st clause; 1 Cor. xi. 7, 1st clause; 

Gen. xvii. 1^ 3; Gen. iii. 8; Judges xiii. 18, 21, 22; John i. 14; Col. i. 15. 

4. Naticre, evidence of personality.— John iv. 24-26, John i. 18; 1 Cor. ii. 11, Cor. ii. 14; Rom. i 3, 4; 

John iii. 6; 2 Peter i. 4. 

5. Character shows personality. — Psalm Ixxxix. 14; Psalm Ixxxiv. 11; John iii. 16; 1 John i. 6; 

1 John iv. 8, 9; Heb. xii. 29. 

C. Offi,ces showing personality.— Genesis i. 1; Colossians i. 16, 17; Luke iv. 1; John iii. 5; 1 John ii. 1; 

Acts xvii. 31; 1 Peter iii. 18. 
7. Relations which imply personality. — John iii. 35, 36; John xiv, 16; John xiv. 26; John xiv. 1; 

John XV. 14; John xiv. 15; Eph. iv, 30. 

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INVJTATIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

Who invites!— God the Father, Ezek. xxxiii. 10, 11, 14-16. Jesus invites, Matt. xi. 28. 

God wishes to reason with ivayward children. — Isaiah i. 18. 

Who urges the invitation .?— Rev. xxii. 17. 

Who may come .?— Isaiah Iv. 1-3, 6, 7 ; Matt, xxii. 8, 9. 

When ?—2 Cor. vi. 2, last clause ; Heb. iii. 15 ; Josh. xxiv. 15, first clause. 

You must serve some one.— Rom. vi. 16 ; Matt. vi. 24. 

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BIBLE READINGS. 53 

GOD'S CARE OF HIS CHILDREN. 

1. By nature we are children of w^at/i.— Eph. ii. 3. Disobedience, Eph. ii. 2 ; Col. iii. 6 ; Ps. li. 5. 

2. How become God's children.— John iii. 7 ; 2 Cor v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15; Gal. iii. 26; Rom. viii. 15-17; 

John 1. 12; Gal. iv. 3-7; 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18 ; 1 John v. 1. 

3. Need Food.—l Peter ii. 2; 1 Cor. iii. 2; Heb. v. 13, 14; Ps. xxxvii. 3; Isaiah xl. 11; John x. 10; 

Psalm xxxvi. 8; Psalm xxxvii. 3; Psalm Ixxviii. 24, 25; John vi. 32, 33, 35, 51 ; Isaiah xl. 11; 
Deut. viii. 3; Jer. xv. 16. 

4. Mu^t he clothed.— Deut. xxix. #; Deut. viii. 4; Luke xii. 22, 28; Matt. vi. 33; Phil. iii. 8, 9; 

(Isaiah Ixiv. 6.) 

5. Mmt be taught.— Gal. iii. 24, 25; John vi. 45; Isaiah liv. 13; Jer, xxxi. 33, 34; Micah iv. 2; 

Ps. XXV. 9-12; Isaiah xxviii. 26; John xiv. 26; Ps. xxxii. 8 ; L-aiah xlviii. 17. 

6. Seed a guide. — John xiv. 16, 17; John xvi. 13; Jer. iii. 4; Psalm xxxii. 8; Psalm xlviii. 14; 

John xxi. 22 ; Isa. xlii. 16; Isaiah xlviii. 17 ; Isaiah Iviii. 11 ; Isaiah xlix. 10 ; John xii. 26; 
Matt. iv. ]9. 

7. Xedd 'Sympathy. — Ps. cv. 13; Jer. xxxi. 20; Isaiah liii. 4; Matthew viii, 17; Matthew xi. 28-30; 

John xi. 35. 

8. Need chastening. — Prov. xiii. 24; Heb. xii. 5-11 ; Rev. iii. 19. 

9. Xeed encouragement. — Luke xii. 32; Johnx. 27-29; Luke xxiv. 17, 32; Isa. xii. 10; Isa. xliii.l. 

10. Promises to children.— Jer. iii. 19; 1 John iii. 2; Phil. iv. 19; Heb. xiii. 5; Rev. xxi. 7. 

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ASSURAI?CE. 



What God knows.— 1 John iii. 20. 

What we all know. — Eccles. ix. 5, f. c. ; Gen. xxvii. 2, 1. c. 

What the sinner knows. — Eccles. xi. 9; Jer. v. 4; Isaiah lix. 8, f. c; Rev. iii. 17, 1. c. 

What the Christian knows.— 1 Johii iii. 5 ; 1 jL,hn iii. 14 ; John iv. 22, m. c; 1 Johnii. 3 ; 2 Tim. ii. 19, 

m. c. ; Rom. viii. 28, f. c; Eph. iii. 19* 1 John iii. 2; 2 Cor. v. 1; 1 John iv. 13; 1 John iii. 24; 

1 John iv. 2. 

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TRUE KNOWLEDGE. 

The gift of God.— Eccles. ii. 26; 2 Chron. i. 7, 11, 12; 1 Cor. xii. 8. 

Beginning in man. — Prov. i. 7. 

Provision for acquirement o/.— Deut. iv. 5-8; Prov. xxii. 21 ; Ps. cxix. 104; 2 Tim. iii. 15. 

Its inestimable value.— Frov. ii. 1-6; Prov. viii. ]0: Prov. xx. 15; 1 Cor. i. 5. 

Leads to tru^t.—Fs. ix. 10; Prov. x^iii. 10; Prov. xxii. 17, 19. 

Hidden in Christ. — Col. ii. 3; Isaiah liii. 11; Ps. cxxxix. 6: John xxi. 17; John xvf. 30; Col. iii. 10. 

Spiritual wealth.— 1 Cor. i. 5; Eph. i. 1-14; Col. i. 9, 10, 12. 

Should be progressive.— 2 Peter iii. 18; Col. i. 9, 10; 2 Pet. i. 5. 

Life Eternul.— John xvii. 3 ; 1 Cor. i. 31 ; 1 John v. 13. 

Some thin-gs it is the privilege of believers to know. -Job xix. 25; 2 Timothv i. 12; 1 John iv. 7; 

1 John V. 18-20 ; 1 John iii. 2 ; 2 Cor. v. 1, 11 ; 2 Cor. viii. 9 ; Rom. viii. 28; 1 Timothy i. 8, 9; 

Heb. x. 30; Ps. sivi. 10; Ps. Ixxxix. 15: Isaiah Ix. 16; John iv. 42; Eph. iii. 19. 

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64 • BIBLE READINGS. 

THE TWENTY THIRD PSALM. 

1. The Lord is my Shepherd.— Ezek. xxxiv. 23 ; Heb. xiii. 20 ; John x. 11; Jer. xxxi. 10: John x. 14 ; 

1 Peter v. 4. I shall not want, Jer. xl. 11 ; Phil. iv. 19; Ps. Ixxxiv. 11 ; Ps. xxxiv. 9. 

2. He maketh me to lie down. — Ezek. xxxiv. 11, 16; Lev. xxvi. 6; Hosea ii. 18 ; Proverbs iii. 24; 

Jer. xxxiii. 12. By still waters. Ezek. xlvii. 12; Psalm i. 3; Jer. xvii. 8; Isaiah xxviii. 12. 

3. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.— Vrow . iv. 18 ; Psalm cxix, 35 ; Proverbs xxv. 4 ; 

Prov. ii. 20 ; Prov. iii. 17. 

4. Comfort me.— Jer. xxxi. 13 ; 2 Cor. i. 3; Matt. ix. 22 ; Acts ix.^1 ; John xiv. 26. 

5. My cup runneth over. — Eph. iii. 19, 20; John i. 16; Ps. xvi. 11. 

6. Goodness.— Vs. cvii. 8; Ps. xxxiii. 5; Gal. v. 22; Rom. ii. 4. C. D. C. 



COMING TO CHRIST. 

1. Our warrant for coming to Jesus. — Rev. xxii. 17. 

2. What ive get when we come. — Life, John iii. 15, 17; John xi. 26 ; 1 John v. 1. Light, John xii. 46. 

Pardon, Acts x. 43. Salvation, Acts ii. 21; Acts xiii. 26; Romans x. 13. Confidence, 
Romans, ix. 33 ; Romans x. 11. Satisfaction, John iv. 13, 14. Increase of grace, Matt. xiii. 12. 
Difficulties removed, Mark xi. 23. 

3. What our walk is to be ivhen we come. — Humble, Matthew xviii. 4 ; Mark x. 43, 44. Holy, Matt. 

vii. 24; Matt. xii. 50. Bearing His cr^ss, Luke xiv. 27. Denying self, Mark viii. 34, 35. Kind, 
for His sake, Matt. x. 42. Confessing Him, Matt. x. 32, 33. Forsaking all, Luke xiv. 33. 
Abiding in Him, 1 John iii. 6, 9; 1 Jolm v. 18. 

4. >ra?'nm7s. —Matthew v. 19; Luke ix. 26; John viii. 34; James ii. 10; James iv. 4; Rev. xxii. 15; 

Rev. XX. 15. 

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HOPE. 

1. Good Hope. — Has God's promise for its warrant, Titus i. 2. 

2. How obtained l — Through the gospel, Col. i. 23. Through grace, 2 Thess. ii. 16. 

8. This hope is— Living, 1 Pet. i. 3. Sure, Job xi. 18 ; Heb. vi. 19. Gladdening, Prov. x. 28. Not 
making ashamed, Rom. V. 5. Abounding, Rom. xv. 13. Strengthening, Ps. xxxi. 24. Up- 
holding, Rom. viii. 24; Purifying, 1 John iii. 3. 

4. A hope in death. — Prov. xiv. 32. 

5. A hope of glory. — Rom. v. 2; Titus iii. 7; Col. i. 5. 

6. A hope of Christ's coming, — Titus ii. 13. 

7. Christ the hope.— Jer. xiv. 8 ; Jer. xvii. 13 ; Joel iii. 16 ; Col. i. 27 ; 1 Tim.i. 1 ; Acts xxviii. 20. 

8. Bad hope. — The wicked man's hope is hopeless, Eph. ii. 12. Makes ashamed, Zech. ix. 5. Per- 

isheth, Prov. xi. 7 ; Job viii. 13, 14. Put out in death. Job xxvii. 8. No hope after death, 
Isaiah xxxviii. 18. 

Man's thoughts. — Jer. ii. 25 ; Jer. xviii. 12. 

The great question. Job xvii. 15. The great exhortation, Zech. ix. 12. 
The great resting place, Ps. xxxix. 7. 

"Be ready always to give every man a reason of the hope that is in you," 1 Pet. iii. 15. 

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BIBLE READINGS. 55 

THE CHOICE.— Deut. xxx. 15. 

The Life Eternal.— John iii. 36; 1 John ii. 25. The choice brings good, viz: Joy, 1 Peter i. 8. 
Peace, John xiv. 27. Eternal Life, Luke xviii. 30. 

The Death EtirnaL—2 Thess. i. 9. The choice brings evil, viz: "Woe, Luke vi. 25, f. c. Distress, 
Zeph. i. 17, f. c. Eternal Death, Rev, xiv. 9-11. 

There is no middle ground. — M&tt. xii. 30; Matt. vi. 24; James iv. 4. 

Ood desires to save. — 2 Peter iii. 9; Ezek. xxxiii. 11. 

God laments the obduracy of sinners. — Isaiah xlviii. 18; John v. 40. 

Menmay he saved if they will. — John vi. 37, 1. c.; Rom. x. 13. 

Responsibility with them. — Deut. xxx. 19; Rom. xiv. 12. 

Choice must be immediate. — Joshua xxiv. 15, f. c. J. M. M. 



THE WOELD. 

1. Under Satan's ru?e.— Matt. iv. 8 ; John xii. 31 ; John xiv. 30 ; 2 Cor. iv. 4. 

2. God's thoughts of the ivorld. — Of its wisdom, 1 Cor. iii. 18, 19. Of its ignorance, John xiv, 17, 

Its hopelessness, Eph. ii, 12. Its hatred, John vii. 7; John xv, 18, 19; John xvi. 14; 
1 John iii. 14. Its friendship, James iv. 4. Its fashion, 1 Cor. vii. 31. 

3. God's commands respecting the world. — Rom. xii. 2 ; James i. 27 ; 2 Cor. vi. 14-18 : 1 John ii, 

15-17. 

4. The world's walks.— E^ib.. ii. 2 ; 1 Peter iv. 3, 4 ; Titus iii. 3. 

5. The world's speech. — 1 John iv. 5 ; Ps. xii. 4. 

6. Jesus' kingdom. — John xviii. 36. 

7. The Christian's ivalk in the world.— Uo'ij, 1 Peter i. 15, 16. Crucifying, Gal. vi. 14. Denying 

lusts, Titus ii. 12. Lights, Matt. v. 14 ; Phil. ii. 15 ; 1 Peter ii. 9. Overseeing, 1 John iv. 4; 
1 John V. 4, 5. Separate, John xvii. 15, 16. Not offending, 1 Thess. v. 22. 
God's object. Gal. i. 4. God's question, Matt. xvi. 26. God's verdict, 1 John v. 19. 

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THE GOSPEL OP THE GRACE OP GOD. 

Sinful by nature.— Gen. iii. 16-19; Rom. v. 12; Ps. Ii. 5; Mark vii. 21-23. 
Sinners by practice. — 1 John i. 8, 10; 2 Chron. vi. 86; Eccles. vii. 20; Rom. iii. 23. 
Conseque7ices. -S-piritnsil Death, Genesis iii. 17. Physical Death, Gen. iii. 19. The Second Death, 

Rev. xxi. 8 ; Rom. vi. 28 : Ezek. xviii. 4. 
Remedy.— Lev. xvii. 11 ; Heb. ix. 22 ; 1 John i. 7 ; John iii. 16 ; Heb. ii. 9 ; 1 John ii. 2 ; John v. 24. 

Exhortation.— J simes iv. 17 ; Luke xii. 47 ; Heb. xii. 25 ; Prov. xxix. 1 : Gen. vi. 3 ; 2 Cor. vi. 2. 

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EVIDENCES OF SONSHIP. 

Believing, James i. 12, 13. Condemnation removed, Rom. viii. 1. Obedience, 1 John ii. 3. Ser- 
vice, Matt. vii. 21. Love of the brethren, 1 John iii. 14. Love of the Word, Ps. i. 2. Love 
of the worship of God's house, Ps. Ixxxiv. 2, 10. Witness of the Spirit, Rom. viii. 14-17. 
The manifestation of the Spirit, Gal. v. 22, 28. (" By their fruits ye shall know them," 
Matt. vii. 20. A promise, 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18. An exhortation, Eph. v. 1-21. L. W. M. 



56 BIBLE READINGS, 

THE WOUD OF GOD. 

Its Names.— 2 Peter iii. 2-10 ; Acts xiii. 46-49 ; Col. iii. 16 ; Eph. vi. 17 ; Rom. iii. 2 ; 2 Tim. iii. 
15, 16; 2 Tim. ii. 15; 2 Cor. v. 19; Acts xx. 32; Romans x. 8, of. 17 and 1 Tim. i. 16; 
Phil. ii. 16 ; 1 Cor. ii. 16. 

2 TIMOTHY III. 15. 

Wise unto Salvation,— Isdi. Iv. 3 ; Rom. x. 17 ; John v. 24 ; John vi. 63 ; Acts xi. 14 ; James i. 21. 

ThrotKjh faith.— Reh, xi. 6; Acts iii. 16; Acts xiii. 38, 39; Rom. iii. 19-26; Rom. v. 1. 

In Christ Jesus. — John iii. 16, 36; John xi. 25; John xiv. 6; Acts iv. 12; Ephesians ii. I-IO; 
2 Tim. 1-12 ; 1 John v. 9-13. 

The Book and the Person. — ( 1.) The Scriptures testify of Christ, 1 John v. 9; Johnv. 39, 46; 
Luke xxiv. 25-27, 44-47; Actsx. 43. (2.) The Book is Jesus Christ, written, cf. Prov. viii. 
22-31 and John i. 1-3. He is the Scripture alive and acting, John i. 14. We are therefore 
" looking unto Jesus " (Heb. xii. 2) when we seek direction from the Word. The Lord mani- 
fests himself unto us by the Spirit illuminating the Word. John xiv. 20-26 ; John xvi. 12-15. 

2 TIMOTHY III. 16. 

All Scripture is by the Spirit of God, — 2 Sam. xxiii. 2 ; Acts i. 16 ; Acts iv. 24, 25 ; Acts xxviii. 25 ; 

1 Corinthians ii. 4, 5, 9-13 ; Heb. i. 2, cf. Heb xii. 25 ; Heb. ii. 1-4 ; Heb. iii. 7 ; Heb. ix. 7, 8 ; 

Hebrews x. 15, cf. Psalm xl. 6, Jer. xxxi. 33, 34; see also 1 John v. 10, and Rom. viii. 16; 

1 Peter i. 10-12 ; 2 Peter i. 21 ; Proverbs xxx. 5, 6 ; 1 Thess. ii. 13. 
And is Profitable.— Fsa.\m xix. 7-11 ; Psalm cxix. 1, 2, 18, 162, &c. ; Prov. i. 29-33 ; Prov. ii. 1-6; 

Proverbs iii. 13-24; Jeremiah xxiii. 16-29; John xvii. 17; Hebrews iv. 12; Deut. v. 28, 29; 

Deut. i. 2, 3, 19-35 ; Josh. i. 1-9 ; Rev. i. 3. 

For Doctrine. — Deut. vi. 4-9; Ps. cxix. 97-100; Acts xv. 35; Acts xviii. 11, 24-28; Rom. xv. 4; 

1 Tim. iv. 6, 13, 16 ; 1 Tim. vi. 3 ; 2 Tim. iv. 1-5. 
For Reproof — The same Greek word is found in John xvi. 8, marg. and cf . Acts ii. 37 ; James ii. 9 ; 

Matt, xviii. 15, and Luke iii. 19, cf. Mark vi. 18. John knew what was written in Leviticus. 

Accordingly reproof has three phases : (1.) Telling one his fault. (2.) Convincing of sin. 

(3.) Conviction, as a court term. In (1) and (2) God's Word is a mirror; in (3) it is a sen- 

(1.) Titus i. 9, 13, cf. Eph. iv. 14, 15; Titus ii. 15; 2 Timothy iv. 2; 2 Timothy ii. 23-25; 
1 Tim. V. 20 ; Rev. iii. 19; Prov. vi. 23 ; Heb. xii. 5, 6. 

(2.) John xvi. 8 ; Rom. iii. 20 ; vii. 9-13 ; Gal. iii. 21, 22 ; 1 Cor. xiv. 23-25. 

(3.) John viii. 46; James ii. 9; Compare Ps. cxix. 130, and Hosea vi. 4-6 with John iii. 
19-21, and Eph. v. 11-13 ; John xii. 46-48. 
For Correction.— The same Greek word is found in Luke xiii. 13 ; Acts xv. 16 ; Heb. xii. 12. Cor- 
rection therefore is : (1.) Restoration ; Psalms cxix. 9, 133 ; John xiii. l-lO, cf. Gal. vi. 1, 2; 
John XV. 3 ; Eph. v. 25-27 ; Titus iii. 5. For illustration compare the reproof Luke xxii. 
61, 62, and the restoration, John xxi. 13-17. (2.) Comfort after chastisement : Ps. xciv. 12; 
cxix. 50, 54, 67, 92 ; 1 Thess. iv. 18. 
For Instruction in Righteousness.— The same Greek word is found in Eph. vi. 4 ; Heb. xii. 8, 11 ; 
and is sometimes rendered discipline, (treating as a disciple.) Psalm cxix. 7, 11, 104,106; 
Prov. iv. 10-13 ; John viii. 31, 32 ; 1 Cor. x. 11 ; 2 Cor. x. 3-6. 

2 TIMOTHY III. 17. * 

God's purpose in giving us the Scriptures is that the man of God may be 

1. Perfect. — The word is to be interpreted by its use elsewhere, as in Matt. iv. 21, " mending their 

nets ;" 1 Cor. i. 10, '* perfectly joined together ;" Gal. vi. 1, ^' restore ;" Heb. xiii. 21 ; 2 Cor. 
xiii. 9. Each man and church should be a perfectly joined net work of grace and triith in 
word and deed, to catch fish. For God's purpose, etc., see also: Romans viii. 3, 4; 
Rom. xi). 1, 2 ; 2 Cor. vi. 14-vii. 1 ; Eph. ii. 10 ; Colossians i. 28; Colossians ii. 6, 7, cf. 2, 3; 
1 Thess. iii. 12,13; 1 Thess. v. 23, 24; Heb. x. 19-25; Heb. xii. 1, 2; 1 Peter ii. 21-25. 

2. Thoroughly furnished unto all good works.— "PhW. ii. 12-16; Phil. iii. 8-15; 1 Thess. i. 9, 10; 

Titus ii. 10-14 ; Titus iii. 4-8. 
J^ma%.— Col. iii. 16, 17; Eph. vi. 17, 18; Acts xx. 32; 2 Peter i.2. C. M. W. 



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GROWTH AND FOOD. 

Ghrototh.—l Peter ii. 1 ; cf . 2 Peter iii. 16, 17. The Greek word here for "unlearned" is untaught aa 
a disciple, not unlettered, as in Acts iv. 13. 

1 Peter ii. 2. A child grows taller and stronger, and as it grows comes to know father 
better, to learn harder lessons and be of more service in the family. *'As new born babes ;" 
the mother who gives birth to a child is the source also of its nourishment. The riature deter- 
mines the character of the food required. Tlie infant is all the time receiving ; is always 
hungry. " Desire ye." To study as a duty is not mentioned. The duty is to desire it. 
Where there is no appetite, the child is sick, perhaps, by wrong kind of food. 

2 Peter iii. 18. Grace and knowledge are the soil. No one outside of grace and ignorant 
of Christ as a Saviour can grow. Grace and knowledge are also the source and means of 
growth, cf. 2 Peter i. 2, 8. 

Eph. iv. 15. Growth is **up into Christ." 

2 Thess. i. 3. There are two lines of growth, in faith and in love. The more we grasp of 
what is written, the more mature our faith, ( cf . 1 Thess. iii. 10 ) and the more the fruit of 
love abounds. The characteristic of these groiving Christians see in 1 Thess. i. 6; ii. 13. 

As Jesus— born of the Spirit — grew, so all the Spirit-born sons must grow. Luke ii. 40, 52. 

Growth is also spoken of under the figure of the seed sown. Luke viii. 11, 15 ; Actsxii. 24 ; 
Acts xix. 20. The ''good seed" makes not plants but ''children of the kingdom." Matt. xiii. 38. 
The food hy which to grow.— l Peter ii. 2 ; Heb. v. 11-14, cf. John xvi. 12-2.5 ; Ex. xii. 8-11, 14, cf. 
1 Corinthians v. 7, 8, and John vi. 53-57 ; Isaiah Iv. 1-3 and John vi. 30-35 ; Ex. xvi. 12-22; 
Deut. viii. 1-9; P.salms Ixxxi. 13, 16; Psalms cxix; Ps. ciii; Ezek, iii. 3, cf. Rev. x. 9, 10, and 
Num. xxi. 4-6; Job xxiii. 12; Jer. xv. 16. 

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SOLEMN QUESTIONS. 

1. Whom am 1 to believe .^— Josh. xxiv. 15; 1 Kings xviii. 21 ;Isa. xl. 17, 18; Isa. xlv. 22; John v. 37 

John x. 37, 38 ; 1 John v. 9, 10. 

2. What am I to believe? — John iii. 16 ; John v. 24 ; Acts x. 43; Acts xvi. 31 ; Rom. v. 8 ; 1 John i. 7 

John v. 11, 12. 

3. How am' I to believe l — ^Acts viii. 36, 37; Romans iv. 5; Romans vi, : Romans x. 9; Galatians ii. 16: 

Eph. ii. 8 ; 1 John iii. 24. 

4. Why am. I to believed— yL2br\i xvi. 16 ; John iii. 18 ; John iii. 36 ; John vi. 29 ; 2 Thess. i. 7, 8 

1 John iii. 23; Rev. xxi. 8. 

5. Luke xlv. 17 ; 2 Cor. vi. 2 ; 1 Thess. v. 2 ; Heb. iii. 7, 8 ; Heb. x. 37 ; Jas. v. 9 ; Rev. xxii. 29. 

6 May I believe as I am.^- Matthew xi. 28; Luke xix. 10 ; John \i. 37; John vii. 37 : Rom. x. 4; 

1 Tim. i. 15 ; Rev. xxii. 17. 
7. Ca7i I be saved without believing .^- Acti^ iv. 12; Rom. xiv. 23; Gal. ii. 21; Galatians iii. 21; 

Heb. ii. 3; Heb. xi. 6; 1 Pet. iv. IT. IS. 

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GOOD NEWS. 

1. Vou have Sinned. — Rom. iii. 23. 

2. God Loves You.— Rom. v. 8. 

3. You may be Saved.— l Tim. i. 15. 

4. Now. — 2 Cor. vi. 2. 

5. Believe and Live. — John in, SQ. 

6. Reject and Peris/?.— Luke xiii. 3; Heb. ii. 3. 



08 BIBLE READINGS. 

THREE WORLDLY ALLIANCES. 

1. A Worldly Alliance. — 2 Chron. xix. 2; 2 Chroii. xviii. 1 ; Deut. vii. 1-6; 1 Cor. vii. 39. 

2. A Martial Alliance. — 2 Chron. xviii. 3; James iv. 4. 

3. A Commercial Alliance. — 2 Chron. xx. 35-37 ; Isa. Ix. 9; Isa. ii. 16, 17; James v. 1-3. 

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GOSPEL RAIL ROAD. 

1. Road Bed.—ThQ Bible. Ps. cxix. 105; Heb. iv, 12; 2 Tim. iii. 16; 1 Peter i. 25. 

2. Engine. — Love. 1 John iv. 16; John iii. 16; Deut. vi. 5; 1 John ii. 5; 1 John iv. 19; Romans 

xiii. 10. 

3. Engineer. — God. Ps. xlvi. 1 ; Ps. xlviii. 3 ; Matt. xix. 17 ; John xvii. 3. 

4. Conductor.— Jesus Christ. Rom. v. 8; Heb. xiii. 8; Rom. viii. 1 ; Col. iii. 1-4. 

6. Train.— ( Made up of ) Believers. Acts xvi. 31 ; 1 Tim. iv. 10 ; 1 Tim. iv. 12 ; Mark ix. 23, 24. 
6. Destination.— Heaven. 2 Cor. v. 1 ; 1 Peter i. 3, 4 ; John xiv. 1-3 ; Rev. viii. 9-17. 

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HELL. 

Is there such a place ?—2 Peter ii. 4 ; Proverbs vii. 27 ; Proverbs xv. 24 ; Luke xii. 5 ; Mark ix. 43 

Matt, xxiii. 33; Ps. ix. 17. 
What kind of place is it? — Isaiah xxxiii. 14; Revelation xiv. 10; Rev. xix. 20; Rev. xx. 10, 14, 15 

Rev. xxi. 8; Matt. xiii. 41, 42. 
Is the punishment everlasting ?—ls3i\sih xxxiii. 14; Daniel xii. 2; Matt. iii. 12; Mark ix. 43, 44 

Matt. XXV. 41 ; Luke xvi. 22-26. 
Who go there .?— Prov. xv. 24 ; Prov. vii. 27 ; Luke xii. 5 ; Isa. xxxiii. 14 ; Matt, xxiii. 33 ; Ps. ix. 17 

Rev. xxi. 8; Rev. xx. 15. 

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GOD'S PEOPLE. 

1. Pilgrims. — Gen. xii. 1-4; Ps. cvii. 4; Micah ii. 10; Jer. 1. 5 ; Isaiah xxxv. 10; Jer. 1. 8 ; Heb. xi. 9; 

Ps. cvii. 6, 7 ; Ps. Ixxxiv. 7; 1 John v. 19; Ps. cxl. 1-5 ; Ps. cxxxviii.7; Heb. xi. 13; Heb. ix. 16; 
Col. iii. 2; 1 Peter ii. 11; CoL i. 10; 1 Peter i. 17; Piiil. iii. 20; Isaiah xxxv. 6; Isaiah xxxv. 8; 
Jer. xxxi. 9 ; Josh. i. 9; Isaiah xxx. 21; Num. x. 29. 

2. Builders. — 1. Cor. iii. 10: Luke vi, 48; Isaiah xxviii. 16; 1 Corinthians iii, 11; Exodus xxv. 40; 

Heb. viii. 2, 5, 10 ; Ezek. xiii. 10; Titus ii. 7 ; 1 Cor. iii. 13; 1 Cor, iii. 14 ; Revelation iii, 18; 

Eph. ii. 21, 22; Col. ii. 7; Jude 20; 1 Corinthians iii. 9; Luke xiv. 28; 2 Corinthians xii. 15; 

2 Sam. xxiv. 21, 24 ; 1 Cor. xiv. 12 ; Titus ii. 10. 
8. Farmers. — Jer iv. 3; Hosea x. 11, 12; Eccl. xi. 6; Psalm cxxvi. 5; Psalm cxxvi. 6; Luke viii. 11 ; 

Matthew xiii. 38; Isaiah xxxii. 20 ; Hosea x, 12 ; Gal. vi. 8, 9 ; 1 Cor. iii. 6-8 ; Galatians vi. 7 ; 

John iv. 36 ; John iv, 35 ; John iv, 38 ; Isaiah v. 7; Matt. xxi. 28 ; 1 Cor. iii. 9 ; Matt. ix. 37 ; 

Matt. ix. 38. 
4. Traders. — Matt. xxv. 14, 15; Ps. Ixxvii. 5, 6; Prov. iii. 14, 15; Proverbs xii. 14; Proverbs xiii. 4; 

Proverbs xxii, 29; Eccl, ix. 10; 1 Chron. xxix, 2; Dan, ii. 20-23; Ezra vii. 23-28 ; 2 Cor, v. 9; 

Gal. i. 29; Prov, xiv, 23; Eccl. v. 9; Eccl, vii. 11; Heb, xi. 1 ; Eph. v. 16; 2 Corinthians vi. 2; 

1 Tim. ix. 6; Matt, xviii. 15; Phil. i. 21; Matt, xxv, 20; 1 Cor. xv. 58. 

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BIBLE READINGS. 59 

SEVEN THINGS ABOUT OUR WALK. 

1. Wemust walk by Faith.— 2 Cor. v. 7 ; Matthew viii, 10; Matthew ix. 2, 22, 29; Matthew xv. 18; 

Matt. xxi. 21, 22; Rom. xiv. 23; Heb. xi. 6. 

2. We must walk in the Spirit.— GsdatisLUS v. 16 ; Luke iv. 1 ; John iii. 5-8 ; John vii. 38, 39 ; 

John xiv. 16, 17, 26 ; John xv. 26 ; John xvi. 7-14 ; Acts ii. 1, 4 ; Rom. viii. 26; Rom. xiv. 17 ; 
Rom. XV. 13; 2 Tim. i. 7. 

3. We must walk in Love. — Eph. v. 1, 2 ; Ps. cxxxiii. 1 ; Mark xii. 31 ; Rom. xii. 10; Rom. xiii. 8-11; 

1 Cor. xiii. 13; Gal. v. 14; Col. iii. 14; Heb. xiii. 1 ; 1 Pet. iv. 8; 1 John iii. 14-18. 

4. We must walk in Obedience. —2 John 6; John xiv. 21 ; 1 Corinthians vii. 19; 1 Peter i. 14-16; 

1 John ii. 3-6 ; 1 John iii. 1-10 ; 3 John 4. 

5. We must walk Circumspectly. — Ephesians v. 15, 16; Eccl. xi. 4, 6; Luke ii. 49; John.iv. 34-36; 

Rom. xii. 11 ; 2 Cor. ix. 6. 

6. We must walk as Children of Light.— Eph. v 8; John viii. 12; Matthew v. 14; Romans xiii. 12; 

Matt. V. 16; Matt. vi. 23; John iii. 21; Acts xxii. 11; 2 Cor. iv. 6; 2 Cor. vi. 14; Col. i. 12; 

1 Thess. V. 1-6; 1 Peter ii. 9; 1 John i. 5-7. 

7. We WAist walk Worthy of our Vocation.— Er>h. iv. 1; 1 John ii. 6; 2 Peter i. 3, 4; 1 Peter ii. 5, 9; 

2 Cor. iii. 3; Acts i. 8; Phil. iii. 20, 21; Rev. i. 5 6. 

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GOD'S PROMISES. 

(Viewed as Promisory Notes.) 

1. Signature.— ''Is it good?" Heb. x. 23; 2 Cor. i. 20; Num.xxiii. 19; 2 Peter iii. 9; 2 Chron. vi. 15. 

2. Payees.— Acts ii. 9; Heb. vi. 12; Heb. iv. 1; 2 Cor. vii. 1. 

3. Value.— 2 Peter i. 4; Rom. iv. 21. 

4. Time.—M'dtt. vii. 7, 

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CHANCE. 

God's part. 
He controls every event, 1 Sam. ii. 6-9; Lan. iv. 35; Matt. vi. 26; Matt. x. 29-31; Eph. i.; Eph. ii.; 
Job V. 12. 

Man's part. 
He should do his best, Prov. xxi. 31; Eccl. ix. 10. He should do what is right, Prov. xvi. 30. He 
should trust God for success, Prov. xxi. 33. Events appear to men to happen by chance 
Eccl. ix.; Eccl. ii.; Luke x. 31-37. But they are portions of God's providence, Eccl. iii. 17; 
And man cannot in any way control them, Eccl. vii. 13; Lam. iii. 37. 

Anon. 



THE CHURCH. 

1. Its Formation.— Ma^tt. xvi. 16 ; Ps. cxviii. 22 ; 1 Cor. iii. 9, 11; Eph. ii. 20; 1 Peter ii. 7. 

2. Its Head.— Eph. i. 22 ; Eph. iv. 15, 16. 

3. Its Design.— Mditt. v. 13-16. 

4. God's Interest it it.—Fs. Ixxxvii. 2, 3; Isaiah xlix. 13, 16 ; Eph. v. 25-29 ; 1 John iii. 16. 

5. Its Duties.— Uom. xii. 4-10; Rom. xiv. 19; Rom. xv. 1; Col. iii. 16; Heb. iii. 13; Heb. x. 24, 25. 

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60 BIBLE READINGS. 

THE BELIP]VEK'8 JNHERIIANCE. 

1. The Inheritance not of this World.— iohw xviii. 36; Rom. xiv. 17 ; Ps. xvi. 5, 6. 

2. Blood-Bought and Bequeathed.— Luke xxii. 19, 20, 20. 

3. Believers the Rightful Heirs. -Uom. viii. 17. 

4. Their Title Clear.— Luke xii. 32. 

5. The Earnest Already Given. — Eph. i. 13, 14. 

6. This Inheritance Glorious. — 1 Peter i. 4 ; 1 Cor. ii. 9. 

7. ShoxUd he Secured iVoit?.— Matt. xi. 12; Rev. xxi. 7. 

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DIFFICULTIES IN THE BIBLE. 

1. Diffi,culties arising from inexcusable ignorance.— John vii. 42. (Farrar, vol. ii, p. 58, &c.) 

2. From partial knowledge. — Luke ii. 2 ; Acts xiii, 7-12; Jonah i. 17 ; Prov. xxx. 25; Job xxxix. 14 ; 

Micahi. 12; Matt. vii. 7. 

3. From variety of style and form— poetry or prose, whole or par^.— Matthew xxvii. 28, 37 ; Mark 

XV. 17, 26 ; Luke xxiii. 11, 38. 

4. From, the progressive form.— ^om. iii. 10; Gen. vi. 9. 

5. From the many-sidedness of triUh.—Ga.\. vi. 2, 5. 

6. From overlooking the Bible's purpose in the use of History, Science, <i:c. 

7. From assuming the impossibility of the supernatural. 

8. From utie of same wordin different 6?enses,— James i. 13; Gen. xxii. 1, 

9. From ignoring the context. — Prov. i. 28 ; Prov. viii. 17. 

10. From errors of translators. 

11. From, errors of copyists. — 1 Kings iv. 26 ; 2 Chron. ix. 25. 

12. From lack of spiritual insight. — John iv. 11, 33. 

Note that unexplained is not the same as inexplainable. The theory of gravitation was accepted 
as proved knowledge when there were many things not fully explained by it in the movements 
of the heavenly bodies. So we rest in the overwhelming evidence of the Bible's truthfulness, 
sure that the little not explained is explainable. 

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CONDEMNATION and SALVATION. 

1. Condemnation.-- 3 ohw viii. 34; Romans ii. 1; James ii. 10; 1 John ii. 23 ; 1 John iii. 4 ; 

1 John iii. 10; 2 John 9. 

2. Snlvafion.— John iii. 16; John iv. 14; Luke xii. 8; Acts x. 43; Rem. x. 11; Johni. 5. 

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DILIGENCE. 

1. Commanded.— Y.X. xx. 9; Eccl. ix. 10; Rom. xii. 11 ; Eph. iv. 28; 1 Thess. iv. 11; 1 Tim. v. 8. 

2. Exempli fed .—2 Chron. xxxi. 21. 

3. Rewarded. — Prov. x. 4, 5; Prov. xii. 24; Prov. xxii. 29; Prov. xxviii. 19; Eccl. v. 12; Rom. ii. 7. 

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THE ATONEMENT. 

1. Law Obeyed brought Righteousness and Life. — Leviticus xviii. 6; Ezek. xx. 11; Romans x. 6 ; 

Gal. iii. 12; 

2. Law disobeyed brought Sin and Death.— Gen. ii. 17; Rom. vi. 21, 23; 1 Cor. xv. 22. World 

dead before God, John v. 25; Eph. ii. 1, 2; Epb. v. 14; Col. ii. 13. 

3. Christ made Sin and Tasted Death.— 2 Cor. v. 21; John i. 29; Gal. ii. 13; Gal. iv. 4; Heb. ii. 9; 

Heb. ix. 28; Heb. x. 12; 1 John i. 7 ; 1 John ii. 2. 

4. Christ manifested the Righteousness of God.— Romans i. 17; Romans iii. 21, 25, 26; Rom. iv. 6, 

Rom. V. 18; Rom. x. 3, 4. 

5. Raised from the Dead as God's Acceptance of His Finished ITorfc.— Romans i. 4; Rom. iv. 25: 

1 Cor. XV. 17. 

6. Christ's Work Transferred to believers.— (a) His death regarded as their death, Rom. vi. 2, 6, 8; 

Rom. vii. 4; 2 Cor. v. 14; Col. ii. 11, 20. (b) His resurrection regarded as their resurrection, 
Eph.'ii. 6; Col. ii.'l2; Col. iii. 1. 

7. On the basis of Simple Faith.— Rom. i. 17; Rom. iii. 22, 28; Rom. iv. 24; Rom. x. 9; Rom. v. 1. 

8. Believers resultant Standing before God; as having all Christ's Perfections and His Standing.— 

IJohniv. 17; John xvii. 16, 26; Romans viii. 1; Ephesians i. 4; Eph. v. 30; Col. i. 12, 22; 
1 Cor. i. 2; Jude 24; Heb. x. 10, 14; 1 Pet. ii. 5; 1 John iii. 1. 

9. Relation of Atonement to theiohole world, including unbelievers.— 3 ohn i. 29; John iii. 16, 17; 

John iv. 42; 2 Cor. v. 19; 1 John ii. 2; John iv. 14; 1 Tim. iv. 10; Col. i. 20. 

10. Unbelief a sin -'^Iav'^ xvi. 16; John iii. 18; John xii. 48; John xvi. 9; 2 Thessalonians ii. 12; 

2Pet. ii. 1; 1 John v. 10. 

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THE MEASURE OF THE BELIEVER'S BLESSINGS. 

"Not according to our works." 
We have been predestinated according to the good pleasure of His will, Eph. i. 5. 
Called according to His purpose, Rom. viii. 28. 
Saved according to His mercy, Titus iii. 5. 
Forgiven according to the riches of His grace, Eph. i. 7. 
We are blessed according as He hath chosen us, Eph. i. 2, 4. 
Supplied according to His riches in glory, Phil. iv. 19. 

We shall be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able 
even to subdue all things unto Himself, Phil. iii. 21. 

Anoh. 



GOD IS LIGHT. 

1. Light a Pure Element— 'I Cor. vi. 14; Habak. i. 13. 

2. Li^ht the Emblem of Holiness.— Vs. civ. 2 ; 1 John i. 6, 7 ; Acts xxvi. 18. 

3. Light comes to us from the Sun.— 2 Con iv. 6; John viii. 12. 

4. Light Cheering.— Eccl. xi. 7; Ps. xcvii. 11. 
6. Light Healthful— Mail. iv. 2. 

6. Light Longed For.— Acts xxvii. 29; Ps. cxxx. 6. 

7. Light May be Shut Out.— John iii. 19. 

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62 BIBLE READINGS. 

THE BOOK OF BOOKS. 

1. Origin and Value of the Book.— 2 Peter i. 21; 1 Thess. ii. 13; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17; Psa. xix. 7-11. 

2. Our Duty in regard to it. — 

God's Method of Bible Study, Prov. ii. 1-6; Deut. vi. 6-9; Neh. viii. 2, 3, 7, 8. 

Helps in Study, James i. 5; Ps. cxix. 18; Ezek. xxxvi. 27, 37. 

Faith in the Word, John xx. 31 ; Heb. iv. 2 ; John iii. 36. 

Essential Things, Jolin vii. 17 ; James i. 23-25; Matt. vii. 24-27. Anon. 



THE SOUL'S BLINDNESS CURED. 

1. The Blind cannot see the Wonders around them.—L\xkQ xxiv. 16; 2 Peter i. 9. 

2. They live in Darkness. — John i. 5; 2 Cor. iv. 4. 

3. God opeTis Blind Eyes.— John ix. 32; Eph. i. 18. 

4. Men Spiritually Blind by their own choice. — Matt. xiii. 15; John iii. 19. 

6. Sight opens up a New World to the Blind.— Luke xviii. 35-43; 1 Peter ii. 9; 
Ps. cxlvi. 8, 9. 

M. T. S. 



THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL. 

1. Snares are laid by the Fowler.— 2 Thess. ii. 9; Gen. iii. 1-5. 

2. Are of various kinds. — Prov. xxix. 5, 25 ; Eccl. vii. 26; 1 Tim. vi. 9. 

3. Only birds ivhich enter the snares are caught.— 'Prov. vii. 23 ; Prov. i. 10; Matt. iv. 10. 

4. Birds so caught cannot free the^nselves.— Eccl. ix. 12. 

5. They may be set free.— Fs. xci. 3 ; Ps. xxv. 15. M. T. S. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S LIGHT. 

1. A Candle must be Lighted.— V^. xviii. 28. 

2. Put on a Candlestick.— Uev. i. 20; Matt. x. 32. 

3. The Wick must be kept in order.— Luke xii. 35, 36 ; Prov. xxxi. 18. 

4. Should Burn Brightly.— John v. 35. 

5. Needed for Finding what has been Lost.— Luke xv. 8. 

6. This Candle will never go out. -Dan. xii. 3. M. T, S, 



THE SNOW PROMISE. 

1. Sarlet an Engrained Dye; it cannot be washed out.—Jer. ii. 22 ; Jer. xiii. 23. 

2. Nothing so white as Snow.— Vs. Ii. 7 ; Mark ix. 3. 

3. Snow the emblem of Purity.— Jy-^n. vii. 9 ; Matt, xxviii. 3. 

4. Jesus makes Scarlet Sins whiter than Snow.-l John i. 7; Rev. vii. 14. 

5. God alone gives Snow.— Vs. cxlvii. 16; Eph. v. 27. 

6. Snow gets soiled on the ground.— J nmes i. 27. M. T. S. 



BIBLE READINGS. 63 

THE CHRISTIAN LIKE THE EAGLE. 

1. The Eagle the King of Birds.— Ezek. xrii. 8 

2. Has Poiverful Wings. — 2 Cor. v. 7. 

3. Soars Very High.— Phil. iii. 20. 

4. Lives to a Great Age.— Fa. ciii. 5. 

5. Is Very Strong. — Ps. Ixxxiv. 7. 

6. Taught to Fly by the Parent Bird.— Dent, xxxii. 11, 12; Ex. xix. 4. 

M. T. 8. 



TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

1. Trees of Righteousness planted by God. — Isaiah Ixi. 3. 

2. Planted beside a river.— Rev. xxii. 1, 2. 

3. Great variety of irees.— Isaiah xli, 19; Ezek. xlrii. 12. 

4. Good trees known by their fruits.— ^iSiit. xii. 33-35; Ps.'xcii. 12-14. 

5. Care bestowed on fruit trees.— Luke xiii. 6-9. 

6. Doom of the unfruitful. — Matt, xxi, 19 ; Matt. iii. 10. 



M.T.g 



CHRIST SEEKING LOST SHEEP. 

1. Never Returns till Sought for.— M^itt. xviii. 11-14. 

2. Lost Sheep exposed to many Bangers. — 1 Sam. xvii. 34-37; 1 Peter v. 8. 

3. One Sheep Wandering Leads Others Astray. — Isaiah liii. 6. 

4. A Lost Sheep the Shepherd's Special Care. -Js^. xl. 11; Ezek. xxxiv. 12, 13, 16. 

5. Gives Joy to the Shepherd luhen Found. — Luke xv. 4-7. 

6. Follows the Shepherd Ever After.— John x. 27 ; 1 Peter ii. 25. 

M. T. S. 



THE WAY OF SALVATION. 

1. A Plain Ifai/.— Hahak. ii. 2; Isa. xxxv. 8; John i. 23. 

2. A Narrow ir«t/.— Matt. vii. 14; James ii. 10; Matt. xvi. 24. 

3. The Only Way.—JeT. iii. 23; Isa. xhii. 11; Acts iv. 12; John xiv. 6; Isaiah xxx. 21; 

Heb. ii. 3. M. C. R. 



FOUR THINGS TO DO. 

Watch ye; stand fast in the faith; quit you Uke men; be strong; 1 Cor. xvi. 13. 

1. TTai^c/i,— Mark xiv. 38 ; 'Rev. iii. 2; 1 Peter iv. 7; Luke xii. 37. 

2. Stand Fast.— Gsil v. 1 ; Phil. i. 27; 1 Cor. xv. 58. 

3. Quit You like Men.—l John ii. 13; Heb. x. 38; Ps. Ix. 12; Ps. Iv. 22. 

4. Be Strong,— Rom. iv. 20 ; Dan. xi. 32 ; John xvi. 33; Eph. vi. 10. A. P. C. 



64 BIBLE READINGS. 

THE WATER OF LIFE. 

1. Water an emblem of the Word and Spirit.— Eph. v. 26 ; John vii. 38, 39. 

3. Waternecessary to Life.— Geu. xxi. 15-19; Johniii.6. 

3. Quenches thirst,— IsSiinh Iv. 1; Ps. xlii. 1, 2. 

4. Cleanses.— Ezek. xxxvi. 25; Zech. xiii. 1. 

5. Fertilizes.— Deut. xxxii. 2; Isaiah xliv. 3, 4. 

6. This Water always Jiowing.—Fs . xxxvi. 8, 9; Jer. ii. 13. 

7. Abundant and free to all.— Uev. xxli. 17. 

M. T. 8. 



THE CHEISTIAN LIFE A RACE. 

1. A Racer must Start from the Place Appointed.— kct^ xvi. 31 ; John x. 9. 

2. Lay Aside Impediments. —Mark x. 50; 1 Peter ii. 1. 

3. Run on the Course.— Fs. cxix. 82, 133. 

4. Keep his Eye on the Goal.— Titus ii. 13. 

5. Strive Vigorously.— Fhil. iii. 13, 14. 

6. Ru7i ivith Perseverance. — Matt. xxiv. 13. 

7. All who so Run this Race receive the Prize.— \ Cor. ix. 24-27. 



M. T. S. 



THE GARMENT OF PRA.ISE. 

1. Sackcloth and Ashes Mourning Garments.— Esther iv. 1-3; 

Jonah iii. 5, 6. 

2. Praise a Princely Garment. -Fs. oxlix. 5, 3. 

3. A Joyous Garment. — Esther viii. 15-17; Ps. xcv. 1, 2. 

4. Becoming.— Fs. cxlvii. 1. 

5. Always Suitable. — Ps. xxxiv. 1. 

6. Improves with Wearing. — Isii. Ii. 11; Ps. Ixxi. 14-18. 

7. Worn in Heaven.— Rev. \. 9-14. 

M. T. S. 



THE CHRISTIAN AN AMBASSADOR. 

1. An Ambassador is Sent by a King. — Acts xxvi. 1&-18. 

2. Is the King's Representative. — Matt. x. 40; Eph. vi. 20. 

3. Negotiates Peace.— Is-i. Hi. 7; 2 Cor. v. 18, 19. 

4. A Faithful Ambassador should be Highly Honored. — 1 Thess. v. 12, 13. 

Ps. exxii. 1. 

5. To Insult Him a Great Crime. — 2 Chron. xxxvi. 15, 16, 

6. The King Pleased with Those loho Honor Him.— ^eremi^h xxxviii. 7-13; 

Jer. xxxix. 15-18. 

M. T. S. 



BIBLE READINGS. 65 

GOD A REFUGE. 

1. A Refuge Ufor those in Trouble. — Ps. ix. 9; Ps. xlvi. 1 ; Isa. xxv. 4. 

2. For those Pursued by the Avenger. — Num. xxxv. 11 ; Luke iii. 7. 

3. This Refuge Strong and Secure. — Heb. vi. 18 ; Ps. xci. 9-13. 

4. Isear at Hand. — Rom. x. 8-10. 

5. None Ever Refused Admittance.— John vi. 87; Matt. vii. 8. 

6. jVo Other Refuge Safe. — Isa. xxviii. 17 ; Acts iv. 12. 

M. T. S. 



SEVEN THINGS THAT FAIL. 

1. Money Fails. — Genesis xlvi. 15; Psalm xxxvii. 16; Psalm xxxix. 6; Ps. xlix. 6, 12; Ps. Ixii. 10; 

Prov. xxiii. 5; Luke xvi. 9, 22, 26; Luke xxi. 1, 4 ; 1 Cor. ix. 6, 7; 1 Tim. vi. 9, 10, 17, 18 
Heb. xiii. 6 ; Rev. v. 12. 

2. Kinsfolk Fail. — Job xix. 14 ; Hebrews ix. 27; Rom. v. 12; Rom. viii. 10 ; 1 Corinthians xv. 21 

1 Tness. iv. 16; Rev. xx. 5. 

3. Strength Fails. — Ps, xxxi. 10 ; Job xii. 21; Ps. xxxiii. 15 ; Ps. xc. 10 ; Isa. Ixiii. 6 ; Isa. xl. 31 

Phil. iv. 13 ; Col. i. 11; 1 Peter v. 10. 

4. Refuge Fails. — Ps. cxlii. 4; Isa. xxviii. 15, 17; Deut. xxxiii. 27; 2 Sam.xxii. 3; Ps. xlvi. 1,7,11 

Jer. xvi. 19 ; Heb. vi. 18. 
6. Eyes Fail. — Ps. Ixix. 3; Eccles. xi. 7; Ps. xxv. 15; Prov. iv. 25: Eccles. xi. 9; Isaiah xxxiii. 17 
Matt. vi. 22. 

6. Desire Fails. — Eccles. xii. 5; Isa. xxvi. 8; Ps. cxii. 10; Ps. cxiv. 19; Prov. x. 24; Mark xi. 24 

Phil. i. 2?; 1 Peter ii. 2. 

7. Flesh and Heart Fail.—Vssi. Ixxiii. 26; Matt. xvi. 26; Luke x. 20; John iii. 36; Acts xiii. 39 

Rom. viii. 28 ; 1 Cor. iii. 22, 23 ; 2 Cor. v. 1: 1 Tim. vi. 7, 8 ; Heb. xiii. 5, 6. 

J. H. B. 



THE ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

1. Our own Garments mv^st be laid aside. — Isa. Ixiv. 6. 

2. Christ" s Righteousness a Spotless Robe. — Rev. vii. 9, 13, 14. 

3. A Father's Gift.— Luke xv. 22; Zech. iii. 3-5. 

4. A Complete Covering. — Col. ii. 9,10; Rom. iii. 20-22. 

5. A Wedding Garment. — Rev. xix. 7, 8; Matt. xxii. 12. 

6. To be Put on Now and Worn Forever. — Rom. xiii. 14 ; Phil. iii. 9. 



M. T. S. 



CHRIST CARES FOR HIS PEOPLE. 

1. The Hen call Her Chickens when Danger is Near. — Luke xix. 41-44. 

2. The Chickens Safe under her Wings.— Vs. Ivii. 1. 

3. Contented and Happy There.— Vs. Ixiii. 7; Ruth ii. 12. 

4. I'he Hen attacks any who ivould touch Her Chickens. — Zech. ii. 8; 2 Kings xix. 35. 

5. The Chickens Come at her Call. — Ps. Ixxxi. 13, 14. M. T. S. 

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66 BIBLE READINGS. 

GEACE. 

1. Its Source,— <io\\n i. 14-17; Pvom. v. 15; 1 Cor. i. 3, 4. 

2. All Grace comes from God. — 1 Peter v. 10. 

3. To Whom docs He offer Grace ? — Matt. xxi. 31; Hosea xiii. 9 ; John viii. 4-12. 

4. Not of Works— Y.\)\i. ii. 8, 9; 2 Tim. i. 9; Rom. xi. 6. 

5. It bringeth Salvation. — Titus ii. 11-14. 

6. W3 are justified freely by His Grace, — Titus iii. 7; Rom. iii. 24. 

7. Sin reigned unto Death, but Grace unto Eternal Life. — Rom. v. 20, 21; Roiu. vi. 1, t. 

8. We are not under Law, but under Grace. — Rom. vi. 14, 15. 

9. The Difference betiveen Law and Grace, — Deut. xxi. 18; Luke xv. 12-24. 

10. Hoio are We to get It .?— Heb. iv. 16. 

11. His Grace sufficient at all Times. — 2 Cor. ix. 8 ; 2 Cor. xii. 9. 

12. Who have it more Freely?— EY>h, vi. 24; James iv. 6. 

13. We are to Sing with Grace in our Hearts. — Col. v. 16. 

14. What is Falling from Grace?— G-d\. v. 1-5. 

15. Difference between Government and Grace. — (No texts; but retributive dealings with 

Lot, Jacob, David brought out, as contrasted with the Prodigal Son, and the sur- 
passing love revealed in the Gospel.) 

16. Last Words of Peter and John.— 2 Peter iii. 18 ; Rev. xxii. 21. 

D. L. M. 



BIBLE HONEY. 

1. Honey the Sweetest Thing known. — Judges xiv. 18; Ps. xix. 10. 

2. Honey Nourishing Food. — Prov. xxix. 13, 14; Prov. xvi. 24. 

3. Strengthcyiing. — 1 Sam. xiv. 27-30; Jer. xv. 16. 

4. Honey abundant in the Promised Land. — Ex. iii. 8; Ps. Ixxxi. 16. 

5. To know the Sweetness of Honey it must be Tasted. — Ps. xxxiv. 8 ; Ps. cxix. 92. 

6. The Bee gathers Honey with Diligence.— Frov. ii. 1-5; Ps. i. 2. 

M.T.8. 



WAITING ON GOD. 

1. For Salvation,— Fs. Ixii. 1; Ps. cxxx. 5. 

2. For Strength.— Fs. xl. 31 ; Ps. 11 x. 9; Ps. xxxiii. 20 ; Ps. xxxvii. 14. 

3. For Comfort,— Fs, Ixii. 5; Ps. Ixii. 6; Micah vii. 7; Ps. xxx. 18. 



H. B.C. 



CONSCIENCE. 

1. A Condemning Conscience.-— Gen. xiii. 21; John viii. 9; John iii. 19, 20 ; Job xv. 21 ; Titus i. 16; 

1 Tim. iv. 2. 

2. A Cleansed Conscience.— Reh. x. 22; John iii. 18. 

8. An Appro^nng Conscience.-^ John iii. 21; Acts xxiv. 16; 2 Cor. i. 12. H. B, C. 



BIBLE READINGS. 67 

THE GOOD SHEPHERD— John x. 11-18. 

1. Bible Shepherds.— Gen. xlvii. 3; Ex. ii. 17 ; Luke ii. 8, 10; 1 Sam. xvi. 11, 19 ; Matt. xv. 24. 

2. The Lord my Shepherd.— ^rs. xxiii. 1, 4 ; 1 Peter ii. 25; 1 Peter v. 4 ; Heb. xiii. 20, 21. 

3. He Knows Bis Sheep.— John x. 14; Exek. xxxv. 11, 13; 2 Tim. ii. 19 ; John x. 27. 

4. He Provides for His Sheep. — John x. 9 ; Ps. xviii. 1, 2; Isa. Ixv. 11; Ps. xxxiv. 10 ; Rom. viil. 28. 

5. He Guides His Sheep. — John x. 3, 16; Ps, xxiii. 3; Prov. viii. 28; Ps. xlviii. 14; John xvi, 13. 

6. He Gloes His Life for His Sheep. — John xviii. 11. 15;.Isa. liii. 6; Rom. v. 8; Eph. v. 2; Tit. ii. 14. 
T. He Delights in His Sheep.— John x. 28-30; Mai. iii. 17 ; 1 Peter ii. 9; Rev. vli. 17; Ps. ciii. 13. 

J. H. V. 



GOD'S GARDEN. 

1. The Neglected Garden.— Frov . xxiv. 30-32; Gen. iii. 17, 18; Heb. vi. 7, 8. 

2. The Ground must he Broken Up. — Jer. iv. 3. 

3. Planted and Watered,— 1 Cor. iii. 6; Ps. Ixv. 9, 10. 

4. Fenced.— Fs. Ixxx. 12, 13. 

6. Weeds Removed. — Heb. xii. 15. 

6. It becomes like Eden. — Gen. ii. 8, 9. 

7. Then the Eirig Delights in it. — Songs iv. 12-16. 



M. T. S. 



THE EVERLASTING ARMS. 

1. The Arm, and Bight Hand the Emblem of Power, — Ex. xv. 6; Isa. Ixiii. 12, 

2. A Father Carries his Child in his Arm^. — Deut. xxxiii. 27; Ps.xxxvii. 24. 

3. A Soldier Fights with his Arm,.— Dent. iv. 34; Ps. xcviii. 1. 

4. Work Done by the Arm. — Jer. xxvii. 5; Isa. xl. 10, 11. 

5. Man's Arm Feeble. — 2 Chron. xxxii. 7, 8; Job. xl. 9. 

6. God's Arm Strong to Save and Strong to Punish. — Isa. Ii. 9, 10; Ps. xliv. 2, S. 

M. T. S. 



THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS PORTION. 

1. What we Are. — John i. 12, 13; I John iii. 2; Romans viii. 17; Romans viii. 14 ; Romans viii, 24; 

Eph. ii. 13; Eph. i. 6; 1 Cor. vi. 11; Col. ii. 10; 1 John iv. 17. 

2. What we Have. — Eph. i. 7; 1 John v. 13; Rom. v. 1; Rom. viii. 15; Heb. vi. 18; Rom. viii. 23; 

Heb. viii. 1. 

3. What we Know.— 2 Tim. i. 12; 2 Cor. v. 1; 1 John iii. 14; Rom. viii. 28; 1 John iit 2, 

4. What we Know Not.— Rom. viii. 26; Mark xiii. 32; Prov. xxvii. 1. 

5. What we Have Not,—?h\\, iii. 11; Phil. iii. 12. 

Aj«on. 



68 BIBLE HEADINGS. 

THE NEW BIRTH. 

1. Its Nature.— John iii. 3; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15; John v. 24; 1 John iii 14 • Rom viii 29* 

Col. i. 13; Eph. iv. 24. , . . ^, 

2. Its Author.— John iii. 5, 6; 2 Cor. iii. 18; Titus iii. 5. 

3. Its Evidences.— 1 John v. 4; John xvii. 16; 2 Corinthians vi. 17, 18; 1 John iii. 8, 9; Rom vi. 8' 

1 John iv. 7, 8; 1 John iii. 14. * 

4. Ita Necessity.— John iii. 6; Gal. v. 17; Rom. viii. 5; Matt. v. 8; Heb. xii. 14; Rev. xxi. 27. 

6. We are Born Again through Belief of the Truth.— James i. 18; 1 Peter i. 23; 1 Cor iv 15- 
Rom. X. 17; Eph. v. 26. ' 

H.J. 



THE PATH OE LIFE. 

1. A Straight Path.—Froy. iv. 25-27; Heb. xii. 13. 

2. A Narrow Path.— Msitt. vii. 13, 14. 

3. An Upioard Path.—VvoY. xv. 24; Isa. xl. 31. 

4. An Old Path.— Jer. vi. 16. 

o. A Pleasant Path.— Frov. iii. 17. 

6. A Light Path.— Frov. iv. 18. 

7. Leads to a Glorious City.—'Ps. cvii. 7. 

M. T. S. 



I 



THE SOUL'S DEBT PAID. 

1. Debt should be Avoided. — Rom. xiii. 8. 

2. The Debtor in the Creditor's Power. — Prov. xxii. 7 ; 2 King^ iv. 1. 

3. Debt may be Paid by a Friend.— Vhilemon 18. 

4. Debt when Paid is Cancelled Forever.— Isa. xliii. 25 ; Jer. 1. 20. 

5. Sin a Great De&f.— Gal. v. 3; Matt, xviii. 24. 

6. We can Never Pay. — Ps. cxxx. 3; Ps. li. 1. 

7. Paid with a Great Price.— I Peter i. 18, 19. 



M. T. S. 



THE WITNESS OF THE SPIEIT. 

1. What it Js.— Rom. viii. 14, 15, 16; Gal. iv. 5 ; Eph. i. 5; 1 Cor. ii. 12 ; 1 John iv. 13. 

2. Its Attainableness. — Job xxix. 25; Ps. xxxii. 5; Ps. eiii. 1, 3, 12; Isa. xxxviii. 17; Luke x. 20; 

Matt. ix. 2: Acts ii. 46; Acts viii. 59; Acts xvi. 34; Rom. v. 11 ; 1 Peter i. 8; Hebrews xi. 4; 
Heb. xi. 5; 2 Cor. xiii. 11: Phil. iii. 1 ; 1 Thess. v. 16, 18. 
8. May 1 Enjoy it? — Romans v. 1-5; 1 Peter i. 8, 9 ; Matthew xi. 28; John xv. 27; Rom. xiv. 17; 
Phil. iv. 4 ; 1 Thess. v. 16; 1 John i. 6, 7; Habak. iii. 17, 18. 

H. J. 



BIBLE READINGS. 69 

GODS WORD A MIRROE. 

1. God's Word a Wonderful Mirror. — Ps. cxix. 129. 

2. A Mirror shows us Our Own Image.— Jscmes i. 23-25. 

3. Shoics us What is Wrong. — Luke vii. 40-47 ; Ps. cxix. 9. 

4. A Glorious Light Seen in this Mirror.— John i. 14 ; 1 John i. 1, 2. 

5. This Light Reflected on Those icho Look into the Mirror.— Ex. xxxiv. 29, 30 ; 

Jer. XV. 16. 

6. This Mirror should be used Daily — Ps. i. 2. 

M. T. S. 



GOD OUR GUIDE. 

1. Travelers through dangerous Mountain Passes need a G^?d«,— Jeremiah iii. 4; 

Ex. xxxiii. 14, 15. 

2. A Guide knows the Road. — Heb. iv. 15. 

3. Has Himself encountered its Dangers. — Heb. ii. 10. 

4. Goes icith the Traveler all the way. — Ps. Ixxiii. 24: Ps. xxiii. 4. 

5. Cheers and Supports him when Weary. — Ps. xxxvii. 23, 24. 

6. The Traveler must Trust and Follow his Guid^.—l Peter ii. 21. 

M. T. S. 



THE SPIRITUAL HARVEST. 

1. Grain Ripe in Harvest.— John iv. 35 ; Acts xvi. 9. 

2. The season for Reaping.— Jer. v. 24 ; Jer. viii. 20. 

3. A Joyous Time. — Isaiah ix. 3 ; Ps. cxxvi. 6. 

4. Laborers sent forth to God's Harvest.— Acts xiii. 2, 3; Rom. x. 10. 
6. Hardest Laborers receive Wages, — John iv. 36 ; Luke xvili. 29, 30. 

6. The Grain Abundant and Very Precious.— hiax^ xvi. 15; Matt. xvi. 26. 

M. T. S. 



LIVING EPISTLES. 

1. A Letter is Written on Prepared Material.— EzokiQl xsxvi. 25, 

Ps. xlv. 1. 

2. Contains the Words of the Writer.— Bob. viii. 10. 

3. Should be Legible. — Acts iv. 13 ; 1 Peter iii. 1-4. 

4. Should be Free from Blots.—Ja^mea iii. 9, 10, 

6. A Letter is intended to be Read. — 1 Peter ii. 12. 
6. Is known by the Handwriting. — Rom. viii. 9, 14. 



M. T. S. 



70 BIBLK RKADINOS. 

SAYING "YES" TO WHAT GOD SAYS. 

Holiness and happiness are both wrapped up in this, the heart's iissent and consent to what God 
asserts ; the compliance of the will with His will ; all of which is conveyed in the sincert 
utterance of one word— "YES." 

LET us SEKK THUS TO CONVERSE WITH THE I AM— THE PRESENT LORD. 

Son of Adam, thou art a guilty sinner. — YES. Rom. iii. 9, 19, 23. 
Thou art helpless for thine own salvation. — YES. Rom. v. 6 ; John xv. 5. 
hou art ignorant and I must teach thee. — YES. Rom. x. 3 ; John vi. 45. 

ou hast been very proud and rebellious.— Y^^. Jer. xiii. 15-17 ; Dan. ix. 1). 
et I love thee.- YES. John iii. 16; Jer. xxxi. 3 ; Rom. v. 8. 
sent Mv Son, JESUS, to die for thee — to save thee. — Matt. i. 21; 1 Cor. xv. 3. 

-YES. 1 John iv. 10. 
have laid on Him the iniquity of you all.— YES. Isaiah liii. 6. 
I have raised Him from the dead for thy justification. -YES. Rom. iv. 25. 
1 have given Him to be thy Eternal life— thy All-in-all.— YES. 1 John v. 11, 12 ; 

Col. iii. 11. 
Through Him thou canst do all things.— YES. Phil. iv. 13. 
Thou art now My dear child.— YES. 1 John iii. 1, 2 ; Rom. viii. 15. 
All My promises are for thee.— YES. 2 Cor. i. 20. 

M}' commands also thou wilt accept. — YES. John xiv. 15: 1 John v. 3. 
Thou wilt give the full control of thy life to Me. — YES. Rom, vi. 13; James iv. 6. 
Thou wilt trust Me for all — even in the dark. — YES. Ps. Ixii. 8 ; Is. i. 10. 
I am able and willing to sanctify thee wholly. — YES. 1 Thess. v. 23, 24. 
I am able to keep thee from falling. — YES. Jude i. 24 ; Ps. cxvi. 8. 
Thou must forsake thine own righteousness, and submit to receive mine. — YES. 

Rom. x. 3. 
Thou must venture to be nothing, that Christ may live in you. — YES. Gal. ii. 20 ; 

2 Cor. xii. 9, 11. 
'* 1 have called thee by thy name — thou art Mine." — YES. Isa. xliii. 1 ; Ps. cxix. 94. 
And 1 am thine.— YES. Is. xli. 10 ; S. of Sol. ii. 16. 
For ever and ever. — YES. Ps. xlviii. 14. 

I charge thee to confess Me before men. — YES. Luke xii. 8; Rom. x. 9; Heb. xiii. 15,m<ir. 
To love Me with all thy heart.— YES. Deut. xxx. 36. 
To love thy brother also.— YES. 1 Johii iv. 21. 
To be holy, and without blame before Me in love. — YES. Eph. i. 4. 
To be filled with the Spirit.— YES. Eph. v. 18. 

To be glad and rejoice in Me at all times.— YES. Phil. iv. 4 ; Ps. xxxiv. 1. 
To instantly confess thy failures, and accept My restoring grace. — YES. 1 John i, 9; 

Ps. xxxii. 5. 
To put on the whole armour of God.— YES. Eph. vi. 11. 
To be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. — YES. Eph. vi. 10. 
In the world thou shalt have tribulation.— YES. John xvi. 33. 
Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. — YES. John xvi. 33. 
Surely, I come quickly, 

AMEN, EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS 



'bible readings. 71 

GOD'S CAllE FOE, ^^THE APPLE OF HIS EYE/' 

1. The Eye Wonderfully Formed. — Ps. xciv. 9. 

2. The Eyeball Wonderfully Protected, Socket., Eyeball, Jjc., Deut. xxxii. 10; 

Prov. V)i. 2. 

3. Very Easily Injured. — 1 Cor. xv. 33; 1 John ii. 11. 

4. Affected by What ice Look Upon. — Ps. cxix. 33; Ps. xxv. 15. 

5. When Diseased, the Whole Body 5'w/drs.— Matt. vi. 22, 23; Eph. iv. 18. 
t). The Single or Healthy Eye Loves the Light. — Habak. i. 13; John iii. 21. 

M. T. S 



HOPE AN ANCHOR TO THE SOUL. 

1. Every Ship has Anchors. — Acts xxvii. 29; Prov. x. 28. 

2. An Anchor needs Firm Ground. — Jer. xvii. 7, 13. 

3. Fixed to the Vessel by a Strong Cable. — Heb. iii. 6; Romans iv. 18-20, 

Ps. cxlvi. 5. 

4. The Sheet Anchor Needed in the Storm.— Rom. viii. 24; 1 Tim. i, 19. 
6. Those Anchored on Christ can Never be Shipwrecked. — 2 Pet. 1. 10, 11; 

Rom. V. 5. M. T.S. 



GOD OUE DELIVERER. 

1. Deliverance from Peril. — Gen. viii. 1-12; Gen. xxxii. 1-3; Gen. xxxiii. 1-4; Genesis xix. 15-25; 

Ex. ii. 1-10; Dan. iii. 13-18; Dan. vi. 16, 17; Acts xxviii. 1-7. 

2. Deliverance from Enemies and Dungeo7is. — 1 Samuel xvii. 4, 10, 11, 22, 23; Genesis xxxi. 22-25; 

Exodus xiv. 19-31 ; Exodus xvii. 8-16 ; 2 Kings xviii. 28-30, 33-35 ; Judges vi. 11-16 ; Judges 
vii. 19-23 ; Gen. xli. 14-17, 39-44 ; Acts xvi. 1-11, 25. 

3. Deliverance from Hunger and Thirst. — Ex. xvii. 2-6; Num. xi. 9; 2 Kings vii. 3-7, 

4. Deliverance from Sin. — Numbers xxi. 4-9 ; Numbers iv. 14, 18; John iv, 14, 15; John xii. 32; 

Matt. i. 21 ; 2 Kings v. 14 ; Matt. ix. 1-8 ; 1 John i. 7-9. W. F. C. 



JESUS THE SAVIOUR— HIS LIFE. 

Was the life of Jesus a necessary or conditional life .?— NECESSARY. Phil. ii. 6; John 1. 1-5, 
What was the Life of Christ? 

1. A Pure Life. — John viii. 46; Heb. iv. ]5. 

2. A Life of Trial.— Heb. ii. 18; Matt. iv. 1. 

3. A Lowly and Humble Life.—V\n\. ii. 8; Matt. xi. 29.1 

4. A Philanthrophic Life.— Acts xx. 35; Matt. xi. 4, 5; Acts x. 38; Matt, xxvii. 42; 

John xiii. 15. 
6. A Life of Love. — John xiii. 1 ; John xv, 9-12. 

6. A Life of Self- Denial.— Fhil. ii. 7, 8; Matt, xx 28, 

7. A Life of Suffering and Sorrow. —Jsn. liii. 3-10; Matt. xxvi. 28; Luke xxii. 43, 44. 

8. A Life for the Salvation of the Lost.— Rom. v. 9, 10; Matt, xviii. 11 ; John iii. 14. 

9. A Life of Glorious Anticipation.— Heh. xii, 2. —The Watchmam. 



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FELLOWSHIP. 



i 



The First Epistle of John. 

1. The Nature of Fellovjshi').— ! John i-iii. 1, 2. 

As effected by the incaniation and death of Christ, chap, i. 1-7. 

As affording no ground for the denial of our sinfulness, chap. i. 8; ii. 5. 

As the only efRcient basis of brotherly love, chap. ii. 6-11. 

Reason for addressing all Christians, the feeblest and youngest, on this subject, chap. ii. 12-14. 

Non-fellowship with the world, chap. ii. 15-17. 

Non-fellowshij) with Antichristian error, chap. ii. 18-29. 

Relation of fellowship to sonship and future glory, chap. iii. 1, 2. 

2. The Fruit of Fellowship ^ Holiness. — 1 John iii. 3-24. 

Its binding nature, chap. iii. 1-5. 

Brotherly love one of the fruits of holiness, chap. iii. 10-18. 

Other fruits, chap. iii. 19-24. 

3. The Law of Fellowship, Truth. — 1 John i v. 1-6. 

4. The Life of Fellowship , Love. — 1 John iv. 7-21. 

5. The Root of Fellowship, Faith.— 1 John v. 1-21. 

Its efficacy, chap. v. 1-5. I 

The three witnesses to its all-sufficient foundation, chap. v. 6-12. f 

Faith in intercessory prayer, or prayer for one another, chap. v. 13-17. * 

Conclusion— Christians urged to maintain fellowship through Christ, chap. v. 13-21. 

—The Watchman. 



LAW AND GRACE. 



Law. 



Grace. 



JOHN i. 17. 



Law. 



Grace. 



Ex. ii. 12. John i. 4. Ex. xi. 4-6. John x. 10, 27-29. 

Ex. iii. 2-5. John i, 14. Ex. xix. 16-21. John xiii. 1-10. 

Ex. iv. 1-3. John i. 43. Ex. xx. 21, 25, 26. John xiv. 6. 

Ex. iv. 6. John iii. 16. Ex. xxxii. 28. Acts ii, 41. 

Ex. vii. 19-21. John ii. 1-10. Deut. xxi. 18-21. Luke xv. 11-23. 

Ex. x. 22. John ix. 6-38. 

The law can not j ustify. Acts xiii. 39; nor free us from sin and death, Rom. viii. 1-3; nor give 
righteousness, Gal. ii. 21 ; Gal. iii. 21; nor make perfect, Heb. vii, 19; Heb, x. 1, 2. What 
then was the purpose of the law? Rom. iii. 19; Rom. v. 20 ; Gal. iii. 19. 

J. H. B. 



THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS' WORK AND REWARD. 



1. Command, Matt. xix. 14; Eccl. xi. 6 ; Deut. vi. 6, 7; Matt. xx. 4 ; John xxi. 15 ; Isa. xli. 10. 

2. What to teach.— 1 Cor. ii. 2; Titus iii. 9; Heb. viii. 25; Luke xxiv. 47; Matt. xxii. 37, SO 

John xiv. 6. 

3. Uow to Teach.— Is3i. xxviii. 10 ; Philippians iv. 13 ; Eph. v. 16 ; Romans xii. 11; 1 Cor. xiv. 40 

Eccl. ix. 10 ; Col. iii. 17, 23 ; Pro v. xxv. 11. 

4. Promises. — John xvi. 23 ; Psalm cxxvi. 5, 6; Ecclesiastes xi. 1 ; Matthew xxviii. 20 ; Josh. i. 9 

Deut. xxxiii. 25 ; Gal. vi. 9 ; 2 Chron. xv. 7. 

5. Reward.— Prov. xi. 30 ; James v. 19, 20 ; Dan. xii. 3 ; 1 Peter v. 4 ; Matt. xxv. 40; Col. iii. 24 

Rev. ii. 10. Anon. 



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BIBLK READINGS. " 73 

THE BELIEVER'S CALLING. 

1. ]rhat is i«2— Phil. iii. 14; Isa. xxxv. 8-10; 2 Tim. i. 9; 1 Thessalonians iv. 7; 1 Peter i. 15, 16; 

Heb. ii. 1 ; 1 Cor. i. 2 ; 1 Cor. i. 9 ; Gal. v, 13 ; Col. iii. 15. 

2. For Whom?—l Cor. i. 25-29; Luke v. 32. 

3. WIw calls ?— Isa. xlii. 6 ; Prov. i. 24. 

4. Exh(yrtation.—2 Pet. i. 10. O. A. H. 



ABIDING WITH CHRIST. 

1. The Duty.— John xv. 4. 

2. The Blessedness.— Ps. Ixv. 4 ; John xv. 23. 

3. l^he Result. — 1 John iii. 6; John xv. 5. 



W. F. C. 



CONDITIONS OF PREVAILING PRAYER. 

1. Conditions in the Character of the Supplicant.— John ix. 31 ; 1 Kin^s xviii. 29 ; -lames v. 16; 

1 John iii. 22.; Ps. Ixvi. 18 ; Matt. v. 23 ; John xv. 7. 

2. Conditions in regard to Faith. — Jsimes i. 5, 6, 7. 

3. Conditions in. regard to Requests. — Rom. viii. 26 ; Phil. iv. 6; 1 Sam xii. 18 ; I Kings xvii. 22 

Matt. xxi. 20: Deut. xxvi. 7, 8. 

W. F. C. 



INVITATIONS. 

THE "comes" of the OLD TESTAMENT. 

1. Judgment. — Gen. vii. 1. 

2. Salvation. — Isa. i. 18. 

3. The Holy Spirit.— Ezek. x.xxvii. 9. 

4. Worship. — Ps. xcv. 6. 

5. Revival. — Song- of Sol. iv. 6. 

6. Care of Israel's faithful remnant in the last days, Isa. xxvi. 20. 

7. Second appearing of Christ. —Jer. 1. 5. 

THE '' comes" of the NEW TESTAMENT. 

1. God^s Invitation.— Lnke xiv. 7. 

2. The SouVs Struggle.— Ms^rk x. 21. 

3. Grace to the Chief of Sinners. — Luke xix. 5. 

4. Rest.— M3itt. xi. 28. 

5. Separation from the World,— 2 Cor. vi. 17. 

6. Strength for Service. — Johnxxi. 12. 

7. Second Coming of Christ. — Rev. xxii. 20. 



J. H. B. 



74 BIBl.E KKADINGS. 

WHAT A PRAYER MEETING SHOULD BE. 

1. Regular and Punctual Attendance. — Heb. x. 25. 

2. Bring Others.— x^um, x. 2\). 

3. Come Praying.— Johu xii. 21; John xv. 5. 

4. Continue in Prayer. — Acts i. 4. 

6. Avoid Criticism. — Ps. cxxxiii. 1; Rom. xii. 10; John xvii. 23. 

6. Participate Promptly and Heartily in Exercises. ~Co\. iii. 16; 2 Cor. i. 11; 

Heb. iv. 16. 

7. Let all Exercises be Brief. — Encles. v. 2. 

8. Keep in mind that loe Speak and Sing before God. — 2 Cor. xii. 19. 

9. Christian Testimony. — Ps. xl. 10; Ps. li. 13; Ps. Ixiii. 8-5; Ps. cxix. 171, 172: 

Isa. xliii. 10; Mai. iii. 16, 17; Heb. iii. 13; James v. 16; Matt. x. 32, 33; 
John xii. 42 ; 1 Cor. i. 5; 2 Cor. viii. 7 ; Rom. x. 9, 10. 

W. F. C. 



HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE. 

1. Object in study— find Christ.— Johw v. 39 ; Luke xxiv. 27, 44; Acts xxvlii. 23 ; 2 Timothy iii. 16 ; 

John vi. 63; Ps. cxxxviii. 2; John i. 1, 14; John iii. 11-13, 34. 

2. Life by the Word.-— James i. 18-21; 1 Peter i. 23; Deuteronomy viii. 3 ; John v. 39; John vi. 63; 

Ps! cxix. 130. 

3. Growth.— Job xxiii. 12; Jer. xv. IG; John vi. 35; Matt. v. 6; 2 Thess. ii. 13; Eph. v, 26. 

4. Power. — Isa. xl 8; Ps. cxix. 89; John xv. 7; Eph. vi. 17; Heb. iv. 12; Rom. x. 17. 
6. Searching in Study. — John v. 39 ; 2 Tim. ii. 15. 

6. Dependence on the Holy Spirit.— John xv. 13 ; John xvi. 26; Jude 20 ; Jas. i. 5 ; 1 Cor. ii. 9, 10, 12, 13. 

7. With whole Mind and Heart. — 1 Chron. xxviii. 9 • 2 Chron. xv. 2 ; Isa. xxvi. 3. 

8 Seek Light from ami who are Taught by the Spirit.— 2 Peter i. 20, 21; 1 Tim. iv. 13-16. 
d. After such Study have Clear, Positive Views.— 2 Tim. i. 8-13; Ps. ii. 12, 13. 

J. H.B. 



VERY SHORT AND VERY LONG. 

Life is very Short. — 1 Chron. xxiv. 15 ; Job vii. 5 ; 

Psalm ciii. 15; Isaiah Ixiv 6 ; Psalm xxxiv, 5; 

James iv. 14 ; Ps. xc. 5. 
Time is very Short. — 1 Cor. vii. 29 ; 1 John ii. 17. 
The Sinner's Joy is Short. — Job. xx. 5 ; 1 Cor. vii. 31. 
The Saint's Sorroiu is Short.— 2 Cor. iv. 17. 
God is Everlasting. — Ps. xc. 2; 1 Tim. i. 17. 
God's Love is Everlasting.— V^. ciii. 17. 
The Life to Come is Everlasting. — John iii. 16. 

The Saint's Joy is Everlasting. — Psalm xvi. 11; 
Isa. XXXV. 10. 

The Sinner's Sorro2o is Everlasting. — Isa. xxxiii. 14 ; 
Rev. XX. 10; Ju.le 13. 



T. B. 



BIBLE READINGS. 75 

LOVE TO THE BRETHREN. 

1. The Command. — John xiii. 34. 

2. Its Characteristics. — 1 Cor. xiii. 4-8; Rom. xii. 9, 10; 2Pbil. ii. 2. 

3. Its Meas^ure. — 1 John iv. 10, 11, with John xiii. 34. 

4. Test of Discipleship. — 1 John iii. 14; John xii. 35. 

Axon. 



HOLY SCRIPTURE. 

Its Inspiration.— 2 Timothy iii. 16, 17 ; 2 Peter i. 20, 21 ; Romans xv. 4; 1 Cor. x. 11 ; Eph. vi. 17 ; 

1 Thes. ii. 13. 
Its Sufficiency. — Luke xvi. 31 ; Deut. iv. 2 ; Prov. xxx. 5, 6 ; Rev. xxii. 17-19. 
Its Power.— John xv. 3 ; John xvii. 17 ; Eph. v. 26 ; Jer.xxiii. 29 ; Heb. iv. 12; Ps. ^ix. 7-11. 
Its Use, and our Duty towards It. — Nehem. viii. 8, and ix. 2. 3; 2 Ciiron. xvii. 9; 1 Peter iv. 11; 

Acts xviii. 28, and xvii. 11, 12 ; 2 Cor. ii. 17 ; Deuteronomj^ vi. 6, 7, and xxix. 89; Joshua i.8; 

Psa. i. 2 ; 1 Peter ii. 1, 2 ; Col. iii. 16 ; Psa. cxix. 1, 2, 9, 11, &c. 
Our Need of Divine Light. — Psa. cxix. 18; Lukexxiv. 45 ; John vi.63; 2 Cor. iii. 5, 6. 
Ignorance of Scripture. — Matt. xxii. 29 ; John xx. 9 ; John v. 38 ; Isaiah viii. 20. 

W. H. S. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

1. Co-equal with Father and Son. — Gen. i. 2; Ps. xxxiii. 6; Job. xxvi. 13. 

2. Author of the Word.—l Peter xx. 21 ; 2 Tim. iii. 16; 1 Thess. ii. 13. 

3. Author of the Atonement. — Heb. ix. 14. 

4. Author of the Resurrection. — 1 Peter iii. "iS. 

6. Spiritual Knowledge.— John xvi. 8; John i. 32, 33; Rom. viii. 15, 16; John iii. 5, 6; Eph. v. 26; 
John XV. 3 • Luke iv. 1, 2 ; Heb. ii. 17, 18; Rom. viii. 26, 27 ; 1 John v. 14 ; Acts xiii. 3-6; 
Acts xvi. 6,' 7; Eph. i. 13, 14. 

L. W. M, 



OUR REFUGE. 

1. All have Sinned.— Rom. iii. 23; 1 John i. 8. 

2. The Soul that Sinneth it shall Die.— Gen, ix. 6; Ezek. xviii. 20. 

3. Refuge Provided. — Ps. xlvi. 1; Ps. xxxvi. 7. 

4. The open Gates of Righteousness.— John x. 7; Rev. iii. 8. 

5. The only Way.— John xiv. 6 ; Acts iv. 12. 

6. The Way Plain. — Isa. xxx. 21; John xii. 35. 

7. Refuge JVear.— Psa. xlvi. 1 ; Eph. ii. 13. 

8. For All.—B.cy. xxii. 17. 

9. Safety.— Act xvi. 31. 

10. No Safety to those who do not Come.— Mark xvi. 16. 

W. F. O. 



7G BIBLE READINGS. 

PRAYER 

1. Model— M3Ltt. vi. 9-lo. 

2. Commanded. — Isa. Iv. 6; Matt. vii. 7; Phil. iv. 6. 

3. Offered through Christ.— Eph. ii. 18; Heb. x. 19. 

In faith, Heb. x. 22. In full a.ssu ranee of faith, Heb. xi. 6. 

With confidence in God, John v. 14. With boldness, Heb. iv. 16. 

Watchfulness, Luke xxi. 36. With obedience, John ix. 31. 

Chri-st present, Matt, xviii. 20. Shortness of time a motive, 1 Peter iv. 7. 

Paul and Silas, x\cts xvi. 25. God's willingness to give, Matt. vii. 11. 
Without ceasing, 1 Thess. v. 17. 

W. H. G. 



THE BIBLE VIEW OF PRAYER. 

1. What is Prayer .«— Ex. xxxii. 9, 11 ; Matt. xiv. 12; 1 Sam. i. 13; Heb. x. 22. 

2. How does God answer .«— 

Surely, Jer. xxxiii. 3: Matt, vii 8. 

Sometimes speedily, Ex. xxxiii. 12-14; Isa. Ixv. 24; Dan. ix. 19-23; Dam. x. 7, 12, 18, 19; 
Acts. iv. 29. 31. 
. Sometimes after Delay, John xi. 3, 44. 
Another and better answer— Luke xv. 21-23 ; 2 Cor. xii. 7-9 ; Luke xxii. 41-47. 

W. F. C. 



SCRIPTURE OE THE APOSTLES' CREED. 

God the Creator. — Jer. xxxii. 17. 

Jesus the Son of God. — 1 John iv. 9. 

His Human Birth. — Rom. i. 3. 

His Sufferings under Pilate. — John xix. 1. 

His Crucifixion. — Luke xxiii. 33. 

His Death. — John xix. 30. 

His Burial. — Matt, xxvii. 59, 60. 

His Resurection. — Matt, xxviii. 5, 6. 

His Ascension. — Mark xvi. 19. 

W\ F. C. 



JEROBOAM. 

1. The Promise of his Youth.— 1 Kings xi. 26, 28, 31. 

2. The Policy of his Manhood. — 1 Kings xii. 1-3. 

Not armed against trouble, 1 Kings xiii. 5. 
No real faith, 1 Kings xiv. 2. 

3. His Warnings by Providence. — 

The Divine Promise confidential. 1 Kings xi. 8. 
Abijah's Victory, 2 Chron. xii. 2, 15, 16. 

4. His Lamentable Fall. — 2 Chron. xiii. 20. 



T.B. 



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BIBLE READINGS. 77 

THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. 

Galatians v. 22. 

1. Love.—l Cor. xiii. 1, 13; John xiv. 21. 

2. Joy.— John xiv. 1 ; John xv. 11. 

3. Peace.— John xiv. 27. 

4. Longsufering.—Isvi. liii. 7 ; 1 Peter ii. 23. 

5. Gentleness. — Matt, xviii. 2, 3 ; Eph. iv. 32. 

6. Goodness. — Deut. vi. 12. 

7. Faith.— Ueh. ii. 6; John iii. 36. 

8. Meekness. — Matt. ii. 29, 

9. Temperance.— Ftov. xxiii. 29, 30, 31 ; 2 Peter i. 5-9. 

W. F. C. 



THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE 
FACULTIES OF MAN. 

Key Text :-2 Tim. i. . 

1. On the Intellect. — 

Perception, John iii. 3; Matt. v. 8; Rev. iii. 6; Ex. xxxii. 17, 18; Dan. x. 7 : John xii. 27-29; 

1 Cor. ii. 9-12. 
Memory, John xiv. 26. 
Imagination, Ps. xix. 14 ; Acts iv. 23. 
Generalization, Acts x. 28. 
Reasoning-, Isa. xi. 2. 
Intuitive Ideas. — (a) Time, Psalm xc. 2; (b) Space, 2 Chron. vi. 18; (c) Cause, Gen. i. 1; 

(d) Beautiful, Ps. xc. 7 ; (e) Right and Wrong, John xvi. 13. 

2. Sensibilities. — 

Joy and Sorrow, Acts ii. 46, 47. 
Love and Hate, Gal. v. 22, 23. 
Enthusiasm, Rom. xii. 11. 

3. The Will.— Acts \.S. 

W. F. C. 



THE STUDY OF THE WORD. 

1. The Spirit — that of a Child. — The written word is like the Word made flesh, divine and human, 

and it must be studied with the light of the Divine Spirit in the human. God alon can show 
God. Luke xii. 22, 28 ; 1 Cor. ix. 10 ; Psalm cxix. 18 ; Amos iv. 13 ; John i. 1-3 ; John i. 14; 
John i. 18; John iii. 16-18. 

2. The Method of Study is the Inductive. — Eccl.iii. 11 ; Ps. xl. 5 ; Ps. xix. 1-6; 1 Corinthians x. 11 ; 

Rom. V. 12-19; Eph. v. 32; Gal. iv. 21-31; 1 Peter iii. 21; Gen. i. 3; 2 Cor. iv. 6. 

3. The Instruments, 3Iea'ns, Helps. — A Reference Bible ; a Text Book; a Bible Dictionarj^; a Con- 

cordance; a Translation; An Englishman's Greek Concordance ; a Commentary. 

4. The Hesults of Study.— Lite, love, worship, likeness, John xvii. 3; John i. 1-4; 1 John iv. 7, 8; 

Rom. xi. 32, 36; Rom. xii. 1, 2; John iv. 20-24; 2 Cor. iii. 18. 

W. J. E. 



78 BIBLE READINGS. 

THE CHRISTIAN'S INHERITANCE. 

1. Its Character,— Vs. xvi. 5 ; 1 Cor. i. 30; Isaiah liv. 17; 2 Peter iii. 13 ; 1 Peter i. 4 ; 2 Cor. v. 1; 

John xiv. 2. 

2. Selected Heirs. — Jas. ii. 5; 1 Sam.ii. 8; Matt, xviii. 4; Matt. v. 8-10; Matt. xix. 29; Titus iii. T; 

Acts xxvi. 18; Rev. xxii. 14; Rev. xxi. 7; Rev. xxi. 27. 

3. When Received.— E^h. i. 3; 2 Peter i. 3; 1 Peter v. 4; John xiv, 3; Matt. xxv. 34. 

4. How Inherited.— \j\x\iQ-x.\\. 32; Rom. viii. 32; 1 Peter i.3, 4; Rev. v. 9; Jer. iii. 19; John i. 18; 

Gal. iv. 4-7; Ezek. xxxvi. 22; Isa. xlviii. 11. 

5. Fully Satisfying.— M2itt. v. 6; Ps. cvii. 9; Ps. xvii. 15; Ps. Ixv. 4; Ps. xxxli. 8, 9. 

C. The Title Deed.— Luke xxii. 20; Heb.ix. 15; Eph. i. 13, 14; Romans viii. 16, 17; Hebrews it. 1; 
Heb. xii. 28 ; Col. i. 9-12; Acts xx. 32; 2 Pet. iii. 14. 

G. H. B. 



CONTRASTS BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND THE WORLD. 

Servants of Sin, Rom, vi. 16, 23. Servants of God, 1 Peter ii. 15, 16. 

Entangled, Gal. v. 1. Free, Rom. vi. 22. 

Sinners, Rom. iii. 23. Saints, 1 Cor. i. 2. 

Children of the Devil, John viii. 44. Children of God, Gal. iv. 3-7. 

Prodigal away from home, Luke xv. 13, 14. Child at home, Luke xv. 20-24. 

Sold under Sin, Rom. vii. 14. Bought with a price, 1 Cor. vi. 20. 

Led Captive by the Devil, 2 Tim. ii. 26. Led by the Spirit, Rom. viii. 14. 

Wicked flee, Prov. xxviii. 1. Righteous bold, Prov. xxviii. 1. 

Shall perish, Luke xiii. 3. Shall never perish, John x. 25. 

Jesus ** knows not," Matt. xxv. 12 Jesus knows His sheep, John x.27. 

Depart — left hand. Matt. xxv. 41, 46. Come — right hand. Matt. xxv. 31, 34. 

G A. H. 



FOLLOWING THE LORD. 

How to Follow.— John xii. 26; Matt. iv. 19; Matt. xvi. 24; 1 Cor. xi. 1. 
When to Follow. — Luke xxii. 54 ; Num. xiv. 24. 
Result of Following. — John viii. 12. 

S. A. T. 



PRECIOUS THINGS. 

Precious Blood.— 1 Peter i. 18, 19 ; Rev. i. 5; Eph. i. 7; 1 John i. 7. 
Precious Stones.— Isa,. xxviii. 16; 1 Peter ii. 4; 1 Peter ii. 6. 
Precious Faith.— 2 Peter i. 1 ; 1 John v. 4; Heb. xi. 1; 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8. 
Precious Promises.— 2 Peter i. 4; 2 Cor. i. 20 ; Heb. vi. 12; Acts ii. 39. 
Precious Death. — Ps. cxvi. 15; Num. xxiii. 10; I's. xxxvii. 37. 

W. J. 



BIBLE READINGS. 



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"AS" AND 'SO" OF THE BIBLE. 

1. Of GoiVs Sovereignty. —Ifid. Iv. 9, 

2. Of God's Merci/.—Ezek. xxxiv. 12; Jer. iii, 20 with Eph. v. 25; 

Psa. ciii. 13; Isa. Ixvi. 13; Isa. liv. 9; Psa. ciii. 11, 12. 

3. Of Imparting.— ^l^it. x. 8; 1 Peter iv. 10. 

4. Of the Uncertainty of Life. — Psa. ciii. 15 ; John ix. 4. 

5. Of Example.— 3 no. xiv. 2\ ; Isa. liii. 7 ; Col. iii. 13 ; John xv. 9 ; 

John XV. 12. 

6. Of Holiness.— 1 Peter i. 5 ; Col. ii. 6 ; 1 Tliess. iv. 1 ; Isa. Iv. 10, 11. 



Anon. 



HEAVEN. 

1. Our Fathers House, — John xiv. 2; Isaiah Ixiii. 15 ; 1 King-s viii, 30; Matt. xxiii. 9; Matt. vi. 9; 

Matt. vii. 11. 

2. The Home of Jesus. — John iii. 13; John vi. 38; John xx. 17; Acts iii. 21; Hebrews ix. 24; 

1 Thess. i. 10. 
8. The Futv.re Abode of Believers. — John xiv. 2, 3; 2 Cor. v. 1 ; Heb. xi. 10. 
4. The Blessedness of Heaven. — Psalm xvii. 15; 1 John iii. 2; Revelation xxi. 27; Rev. vii. 15-lT ; 

John xii. 26; Phil. i. 23; Matt. v. 12. 
i. Names written in Heaven. — Luke x. 20 ; Heb. xii. 23 ; Matt. vi. 19, 20, Luke xii. 38. 

O.A. 



SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. 

John V. 39; John ii. 12, 13. 

Seriously. — Acts xvii.ll ; 2 Tim. ii. 15. 
Earnestly. — Josh. i. 8; Ps. cxix. 12. 
Anxiously, — John xx. 31; Ps. cxix. 9. 
Regularly. — Acts xvii. 11; Ps. i.2. 
Carefully.— Luke xxiv. 27; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. 
Humbly. — Luke xxiv. 45; James i 22. 



Anon, 



COME TO JESUS. 



For Pardon. — Eph. i. 5-7. 
For Comfort.— Is3i.. Ixi. 2-3. 
For Health.— Isl3,tt. viii. 16, 17. 
For Strength.— FhAl iv. 13. 
For Holiness.— John xv. 4, 5. 



For Peace.— John xiv. 27. 
For Joy. — Johnxv. 10, 11. 
For Rest.— Msiit. xi. 28. 
For Happiyiess. — Pro v. xiii. 17, 18. 
For Eternal Life. — John vi. 47. 
Anon. 



80 BIBLE READINGS. 

SEVEN THINGS THE UNSAVED HAVE. 

1. No God.— Eph.il 12. 

2. No Christ. — Rom. viii. 9. 

3. No Life.—l John v. 12. 

4. No Peace. — Rom. iii. 17. 

5. No Hope.— Eph. ii. 12. 
t>. No Excuse. — Rom. i. 20. 
7. No Escape. — Heb. ii. 3. 



Anon. 



AMUSEMENTS. 

1. What is Allowable i— 2 Cor. vi. 14; 2 Cor. vii. 1. 

2. What is Becoming ?— Phil. i. 27 ; Gal. vi. 14 ; 1 John iv. 14; 1 John v. 4. 

W. S. R. 



POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE JEWS. 

1. Popular Suffrage.— E^. xix. 5,. 7, 8; Num. xi. 16; Deut. i. 13, 14. 

2. Tioo Representative Bodies. — Numbers xvi. 1-5, 10: Num. xxvii. 18-23; 1 Chronicles xii. 1-8 

1 Kings viii. 1-5; Num. xi. 16, 17 ; Josh. ix. 18-21. 

3. A Judiciary,— Ey.. xviii. 21, 22, 24. 

4. Constitutional Executive.— Deut. xvii. 14, 20; 1 Kings xxi. 1-16. 

5. A Human Penal Code.— Deut. xvii. 2-5; Deut. xviii. 9-11, 20; Deut. xiii. 1-5; Num. xv. 32-36 

Deut. xxi. 18-21; Deut. xix. 11-13; Deut. xxii. 13-27; xxiv. 17. 
(>. Provisions for Protection. — Exodus xx. 13; Deut. xxii. 8; Deut. xxiv. 7, 14; Exodus xxii. 22 
Lev. xix. 19. 

7. Popular Education. — Deuteronomy vi. 7 ; Deut. xxxi. 9-13 ; Deut. xxxiii. 10: Neh. viii. 5-8 

2 Chron. xvii. 8, 9. 

8. Dependent Priesthood. — Num. xviii. 20, 21 ; Deut. xviii. 1, 2; Deut. xiv. 26, 27. 

9. Religion Foundation of State.— Ex. xx. 1, 2; Deut. xxxi. 24-26. 

10. Union of States. — Num. i. 1—54; Josh, xiii ; Josh. xiv. 1-5. 

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CHRISTIAN WORKERS. 

The Commission. — Rev. xxii. 17. 
The Conditions. — John xxi. 15-17. 
The Motives.— 'i Cor. v. 14; Heb. iii. 17. 
The Talents. -'^Sitt. xxv. 28-30. 
The Preparation. — 2 Tim. ii. 15, 
The Power.— 2 Cor. iii. 5; Phil. iv. 18. 
The Spirit.— Ts. cxxvi. 5, 6. 



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JUSTIFICATION. 

1. Before God— by Blood.— Heb. ix. 22; Lev. xvii. 11 ; Ex. xii. 13 : Heb. ix. 7, 9 ; Heb. ix. 11. 12- 

Rom. V. 9; Acts xx. 28; 1 Peter i. 19; Col. i. 20; Isa. liii. 11; Isa. liv. 17; Jer. xxiii. 6. 
a. Realized by Faith. -Eph. ii. 8; Rom. iii. 26; Acts xiii. 39; Rom. v. 1. 

3. Manifest by Works.— E^ih. ii. 10; Phil. ii. 18; James ii. 18, 24, 26; Matt. v. 16; 1 Peter ii. 9. 

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GOD'S WORDS. 

Man Lost.— Rom. iii. 12; Rom. iii. 22, 23; Eccles. vii. 20; Isa. liii. 6. 
Redemption Provided. — Isa. xliii.l; 1 Cor. vi. 20; 1 Peter i. 18, 19; Isa. xliv. 22. 
Substitute Offered.— 1 Peter ii. 2^; Isa.l. 8; Isa. liii. 11; Rom. v. 1. 
Sins Forgiven. — Eph. iv. 32; Matt. vi. 14; Isa. i. 18; Isa. xliii. 25. 

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HEAVEN. 

Heaven is our Father's House.— John xiv. 2 ; Isaiah Ixiii. 15 ; 1 Kings viii. 30, f. c. ; Matthevt 
xxiii. 9; Matt. vi. 9; Matt. vii. 11. 

The Home of Jesus. 

Whence He Came. — John iii. 13; John vi. 38. 

Whither He has Returned.— John xx. 17 ; Acts. iii. 21 ; Heb. ix, 24. 

Whence He shall come again. — 1. Thess. i. 10 ; 1 Thess. iv. 16. 

The place from which the Spirit 'proceeds. —John i. 32 ; Acts ii. 2; L Peter i. 12. 

The source of all Earthly Good. — John iii. 27; James i. 17. 

The future abode of all Believers.— John xiv. 2, 3; 2 Cor. v. 1 ; Heb. xi. 10. 

The Blessedness of Heaven — 

Consists in freedom from Sin. Psa.xvii. 15; 1 John iii. 2; Rev. xxi. 27. 
In Freedom from pain and sorrow. Rev. vii. 15-17; Rev. xxi. 4. 
In being with Jesus. John xii. 26; Phil. i. 23; 1 Thess. iv. 17. 
In seeing His glory. John xvii. 24; Rev. xxii. 4. 
In receiving His reward. Matt. v. 12. 

This Reward is Represented — 

As an inheritance. Acts. xxvi. 18; Col. i. 12; 1 Peter i. 4 ; Rev. xxi. 7. 

As a prize. Phil, iii, 14. 

As a rest. Heb. iv. 9; Rev. xiv. 13. 

As a kingdom. Matt. xxv. 34; Luke xxii. 29, 30. 

As a crown. 1 Cor. ix. 25; James i. 12; Rev.ii. 10, last clause ; 2 Tim. iv. 8; 1 Peter v. 4. 

As fullness of knowledge. 1 Cor. xiii. 12. 

As fullness of life. Matt. xxv. 46. 

As fullness of joy. Psa. xvi. 11. 

Christians should rejoice because their Names are now written in Heaven.— Luke x. 20; H» 
brews xii. 23. 

Mtnve to lay up Treasures there.— ^&it, vi. 19, 20: Luke xii. 33. 

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82 BIBLE HEADINGS. 

SEVEN '^ COMES. " 

1. Come into the Ark.— Gen. vii. 1. 

2. Coine, Let us Reason Together.— Isa.. i. 18. 

3. Come, My people^ enter into thy Chambers. — Isa. xxvi. 20. 

4. Come Ye to the Waters. — Isa. Iv. 1. 

5. Come Out and he Ye Separate. — 2 Cor. vi. 17. 

6. Come Out of Her, My People. — Rev. xviii. 4. 

7. Come up Hither. — Rev. iv. 1. 

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SEVEN THINGS ABOUT PEACE. 

1. It is Made.— Co\. i. 20. 

2. It is Preached. — Acts x. 36; 

3. It is Given. — John xiv. 27. 

4. It is Possessed. — Rom. v. 1. 

5. It should fill the Heart. —Rom. xv. 13. 

6. It Should keep the Heart.— Vhil. iv. 6, 7. 

7. It should Rule the Heart. — Col. iii. 15. 



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SEVEN INDISPENSABLE THINGS. 

1. Without Shedding of Blood is no Remission,— Reb. ix. 22. 

2. Without Faith it is Impossible to Please God. — Heb. xi. 6. 

3. Without Holiness no Man shall See the Lord. — Heb. xii. 14. 

4. Without Works Faith is Dead.—J2is. ii. 26. 

5. Without Love / am Nothing. — 1 Cor. xiii. 1, 3. 

6. Without Chastisement Ye are not ^Sows.— Heb. xii. 8. 

7. Without Me [Jesus] Ye can do Nothing.— John xv. 5. 



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"COMES" OF OUR. LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

Come and See. — John i. 39. 

Come unto iff e.— Matt, xi, 28. 

Come Doiyn. - -Luke xix. 5. 

Come Apart and Rest. — Mark vi. 31. 

Come Forth.— John xi. 43. 

Come and Dine. — John xxi. 12. 

Come, ye Blessed. — Matt. xxv. 34. 

I will Come Again.— John xiv. 3. 

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THE BIBLE AND ITS TEACHERS. 

An AncieiU Bible School and its Teachers.— N eh. viii. 1-9; Neh. ix. 3. 

The Divine Commission to the Bible TeacAer.— Matt, xxviii. 19, 20; Jer. i. 9; 2 Cor. vi. 1; 8 John i. 8. 

Necessary Qualities of the Bible Teacher. — 

Conversion, John xxi. 15; 1 Sam. xvi. 7; John iii. 5, 10; 1 Sam. iii. 6; Act« iii. 6. 

Prayerfulness, 1 Cor. i. 11; Rom. xv. 80; Ex. xxviii. 12, 29; 2 Cor. iii. 5; John xiv. f>. 

Consistent Example, Acts i. 1 ; Ezra vii. 10. 

Faithfuhiess and Abihty to Teach, 2 Tim. ii. 2. 

Knowledge, 2 Peter i. 5. 

Power of Clear Expression, 1 Cor. xiv. 19. 

Habits of Study, 2 Tim. ii. 15. 

Tenderness, Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6 ; 2 Cor. ii. 4. 
Summ,ing it All Up.—l Tim. iv. 11-16. 

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THE SABBATH. 

God's Holy Day as required of the Jews, — Isa. Iviii. 13. 

The Lord's Day as Observed by John.—Uev. i. 10. 

First Day of the Week as Observed by the Disciples. — John xx. 26; Acts xx. 7, 

No Work to be Done.— Ex. xx. 10; Lev. xxiii. 3. 

No Worldly Pleasure-seeking. — Isa. Iviii. 13. 

No Traj^c.—'^Qh. x. 31 ; Neh. xiii. 15-17. 

Divine Worship required.— Ezek. xlvi. 3; Acts xvi. 13; 

Scriptures to be Bead.— Acts xiii. 27; Acts xv. 21. 

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THE BIBLE AND CHILDHOOD. 

1. Man's Anxious Question about every Child. — Luke i. 61. 

2. God's Interest in Childhood. — Gen. xxi. 17 ; Ps. cxlvii. 18 ; Prov, viii, 17. 

3. God's care for Hi^ Little Ones.— Deut. vii. 4; Ps. ciii. 18; Isa. xl. 11 ; Mai. iii. 7 ; Matt. vii. 11. 

4. God saving Men by Homefuls.— Gen. vii. 1; Gen. xix. 16; Josh. xxiv. 15; Acts xvi. 31-33. 

5. Parents as God-appointed Teachers. — Deut. xi. 4-7 ; Ps. Ixxviii. 5-7. 

6. Children to be early Saved. — Matt. xix. 41 ; 2 Chron. xxxiv. 3 ; 1 Sam. iii. 1, 19. 

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CONDEMNATION— REDEMPTION— INVITATION. 

1. Condemnation. — Romans v. 12; 1 John i. 8; Ezekiel xviii. 20; Galatians iii. 22; Luke xiii. 2, 3; 

2 Cor. v. 10; Rom. xiv. 12; 1 Peter iv. 18; Rom. vi. 23; Heb. x. 31, 26, 27; John iii. 18. 

2. Redemption.— Zech. xiii. 1 ; Rom. v. 19 ; 1 Tim. i. 15 ; John iii. 16 ; Isa. liii. 5, 6 ; 1 John i. 7 ; 

John i. 29 ; Acts iv. 12 ; Rev. v. 12, 13. 
S. Invitation.— Issiisih Iv. 1, 6, 7 ; Isa. i. 18 ; Isa. xiv. 22 ; Matthew xi. 28 ; John v. 37 ; 1 John i. 9 ; 
Heb. vii 25 ; Rev. xxii. 17. 

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84 BIBLE READINGS. 

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 

"That was the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." (John i. 9.) **I am 
the light of the world." (John ix. 5.) 

IN WHAT RESPECT IS LIGHT A TRUE SYMBOL OF CHRIST ? 

1, It was the beginning of things. "And God said: Light! he! and liifht was." (Gen. i. 3.) 

Before, all was chaos ; no worlds, no sun, no stars ; all "without form and void." "In the 
beginning was the Word." (John i. 1.) "He is before all things." (Col. i. 17.) " I am the 
beginning and the end." (Rev. xxi. 6. 

2. Light Illuminates.— It dispels darkness, and brings into view things which could not before be 

seen. So Christ is the Sun of Righteousness, ushering in the day of grace, bringing "to light 
the hidden things of darkness," (1 Cor. iv. 5,) "as the light of the morning when the sun 
riseth." (2 Sam. xxiii. 4.) 

8. Light vivifies, giving health and vigor to everything in nature having life. A plant grown in 
darkness may live, but is unhealthy and will bear no fruit. (John xv. 6.) So the "Sun of 
Righteousness" brings "healing in His wings." (Mai. iv. 2.) "As many as* touched were 
made perfectly whole." (Matt. xiv. 36.) 
. 4. Light disinfects. — Dark, miasmatic swamps, when opened to the light of the sun, are changed 
in their nature and become healthy, fit for the abode of man. So when Christ is let into that 
human heart which by long neglect seems to jield only a noisome pestilential atmosphere, 
and to be fitted only for the abode of reptiles and ravenous beasts, He will purify and 
sweeten it, and cause it to bring forth fruits of righteousness. (2 Peter i. 19; Heb.ix. 14.) 

6. The reflection of light gives visibility to objects, and those objects are brightest which reflect 
the most light. So those who reflect Christ most in their own lives, are most like Christ. 
(Matt. V. 16.) 

6. Light beautifies. —Did you ever see a spectrum ? If you allow a ray of light to pass through a 

prism it will be divided into bright bands of color. Many spectrums make a rainbow. These 
seven colors, in their different combinations, furnish all the infinite shades of the flowers, 
the gorgeous plumage of the birds, and the endless tints of the landscape. So is Christ the 
source of all beauty and loveliness in spiritual life. (Isa. iv. 3.) 

7. But below the spectrum, there is a ray called the calorific ray. You cannot see it, but you feel 

it when you place yourself in the sunlight. It warms you. So in Christ there is an influence 
which, through men may not see it, when it falls upon our hearts, warms them, and cheers 
them. "Did not our hearts burn within us ?" (Luke xxiv. 32.) 

8. Again there is another ray called the actintic ray. It is above the spectrum, and can neither be 

seen nor felt, but it is that which draws with unerring pencil the faithful photographic por- 
trait, upon a plate so prepared as to be sensitive to its effects. So Christ, shining upon a 
heart prepared by grace and faitli to receive His impress, imprints thereupon His likeness, 
and it is "changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 
(2 Cor. iii. 18; Rom. viii. 29.) 

9. If we let light pass through an instrument called a "spectroscope," it will tell many things about 

the place from which it came. It is thus we are able to know much about the constitution 
o^ the stars of heaven which we could learn in no other way. So "He that came down from 
he^wen" is the only revealer of heavenly things. (John iii. 11-13.) 

10. There is power in light. —Wc.Oroo\!ies. an English savant, has recently shown that light, so 

far from being imponderable, as has been taught, has a distinct momentum or force. He 
proves this by an apparatus consisting of a strong glass globe having mounted within it a 
delicate pair of arms, forming, as it were, four spokes of a wheel, on the ends of which are 
hung bits of pith having one side blackened, so that in one revolution all the black sides 
appear at the left, and all the white sides of the pith show on the right side. When the air 
is thoroughly exhausted from this globe, and a light is brought near so as to shine upon the 
bits of pith, they at once begin to revolve, and the nearer the light is brought the faster they 
revolve, in the ratio of the well known law of light, inversely as the square of the distance. 
Now mark three facts : 1. The light acts strongest on the white face of the pith, and so sets 
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prevent the action. Now Christ is indeed a j30wer in the world. He moves the hearts of men, 
and the purer the heart the more it feels the moving power of Christ. (Psalm xxiv. 4.) The 
nearer the heart is to Christ the more vigorously it moves under His influence. (James iv. 8 ; 
Heb. X. 22.) But when this world is in the heart, the gentle influence of Christ is not felt. 
All selfishness must be taken away if we would feel Christ "working in us to will and to do of 
His good pleasure." (Phil. ii. 13.) May "the power that worketh in us" work in us 
mightily. (Eph. iii. 20; Col. i. 29.) 
11. Is it not possible that it is through the light which He first called into being that He set 
the worlds in motion, and keeps them revolving each in its proper orbit? If so, how 
beautiful a type is it of Him " by whom also He made the worlds," (Heb. i. 2,) **and 
without Him was not anything made that was made." (John i. 3; Eph. iii. 9.) 

Therefore "let us walk in the light of the Lord" (Isa. ii. 5) "as children of light;" (Eph. v. 8;) 
■'for Gk)d, who commandeth the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, 
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." 
(2 Cor. iv. 6.) 

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PRECIOUS BLOOD. 

THE BELIEVER'S ALPHABET. 

Atones for the Soul. — Lev. xvii. 11. 

Brings us into the Covenant of Grace. — Matt. xxvi. 28. 

Cleanses us from all Sin, — 1 John i. 7. 

Delivers God's Peox>le from Judgment. — Ex. xii. 13. 

Ever asting in its Value. — Heb. xiii. 20. 

Furnishes the only Ground of Peace with God.—Go\. i. 20. 

Gives us Access into His Presence.— B.eh. x. 19-21. 

Has already obtained for us Bedemptioji. —Eph. i. 7. 

Imparts Eternal Life.— John vi. 54. 

Justifies us in the Sight of God. — Rom. v. 9. 

Keeps us in the Holy of Holies. — Heb, ix. 22-26. 

Links us to God's Electing Purpose. — 1 Peter i. 2. 

Makes us Nigh to Him.— Eph. ii. 13. 

Never needs to be offered again.— U.eh. ix. 12. 

Overcomes the Power of Satan. — Rev. xii. 11. 

Purges the Conscience from Dead Works. — Heb. ix. 14. 

Quenches the Righteous Wrath of God. — Rom. iii. 25. 

Redeems us from our State of Ruin.—l Peter i. 18, 19. 

Speaks to God and to us of Salvation.— Heb. xii. 24. 

Tunes the Voices of the Saints in Holy Song.— Rev. v. 9. 

Unites us in Christian Communion. — 1 Cor. x. 16. 

Victorious over Tribulation. — Rev. vii. 14. 

Washes us from every Stain.— Rev. i. 6. 

yields the Price that Bought the Church.— Aot^ xx. 28. 



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86 BIBLE READINGS. 

SEVEN REASONS FOR COMING TO THE LORD'S SUPPER. 

1. It is an Act of Obedience.— Myitt. xxvi. 26, 27; Mark xiv. 22; 1 Cor. xi. 24. 

2. An act of Remembrance.— Luke xxii. 19; 1 Cor. xi. 24, 25. 

3. An Act of Testimony to His Death.— 1 Cor. xi. 26; 1 Cor. v. 7. 

4. An Act of Confession that Salvation is Through His -BZood.— Matthew xxvi. 28; Luke xii. 8, 9; 

Rom. X. 9, 10; Rev. iii. 5. 
6. An Act of Fellowship.— 1 Cor. x. 16, 17. 

6. An Act of Praise and Thanksgiving.— Luke xxii. 19; 1 Cor. x. 16; 1 Cor. xi. 24. 

7. An Act Silently but Powerfully proclaiming His Second Coming,—! Cor. xi. 26. 

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WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? 

In faith, a Believer in Christ.— Mark xvi. 16. 

In knowledge, a Disciple.— John viii. 31. 

In character, a Saint.— Rom. i. 7. 

In influence, a Light. — Matt. v. 14. 

In conflict, a Soldier. — 2 Tim. ii. 3. 

In communion, a Friend. — John xv. 15. 

In progress, a Pilgrim,. — Heb. xi. 13. 

In relationship, a Child.— Rom. viii. 16. 

In expectation, an Heir. — Rom. viii. 17. 



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PRAYER 

1. How to Pray.— Job xxxvii. 19; Hosea xiv. 2; Matt. vi. 7. 8; Matt, xviii. 19; Luke xi. 1. 

2. When to Pray.— Fa. v. 3 ; Ps. Iv. 17 ; Ps. Ixxxvi, 3 ; Ps. Ixxxviii. 1, 13 ; Ps. cxlii. 8 ; Isa. xxxiii. 2; 

Acts xvi. 25. 

3. Where to Pray.— Vs. Ixi. 2: 2 Chron. xx. 9; Lam. iii. 55; Jonah ii. 1. 

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THE OLD, OLD STORY. 

1. God*s greatest Gift to Us.—Isb.. ix. 6 ; Isa. vii. 14 ; Luke ii. 10, 11 ; Matt. i. 21 ; 1 John iv. 9; 

Acts iii. 26 ; Eph. ii. 7 ; Rom. v. 15 ; John iii. 16 ; Rom. vi. 23 ; 1 Cor. ix. 15. 

2. The Spotless Lamb of God.— Gen. xxii. 7, 8; Isa. Iii. 7; Acts viii. 32; 1 Cor. v. 7; Rev. xiv. 1 ; 

Rev. vii. 9, 10 ; Rev. xii. 10, 11 ; Rev. xvii. 14 ; John i. 29. 

3. Our Divine Teacher.— John iii. 1, 2; Hebrews i. 1, 2; Acts iii. 22; Matthew iv. 23; Luke iv. 32; 

Matt. V. 1, 2 ; Matt vii. 24, 26, 28, 29 ; John vi. 68; John i. 17 ; Luke xxiv. 27, 32, 22. 

4. Our Loving Saviour. — Luke xix. 10 ; John iv. 42 ; 1 John iv. 14 ; Acts v. 31; Hebrews vii. 25 ; 

John XV. 13; 1 John iii. 8; Acts ii. 21; 2 Peter iii. 9. 
ft. The Lord of Glory.— John i. 14 ; Rev. xix. 16 ; John xvii. 1, 4, 6 ; Matt. xxv. 31 ; Hebrews i. 6 ; 
Phil. ii. 9; 1 Cor. ii. 8; Matt. xxiv. 30. 

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THE SEVEN '^ MUSTS.'^ 

1. What MUST I do to be saved ?-Acts xvi. 30. 

2. Ye MUST be born again.— John iii. 7. 

3. As Moses hf ted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so MUST the Son of Man be lifted up.— 

John iii. 14. 

4. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven, given among 

men whereby we MUST be saved.— Acts iv. 12. 

5. Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, as thou hast said so MUST we 

do.— Ezra x. 12. 

6. And Jesus said unto him, Zacchseus, make haste and come down, for to-day I MUST Abide at 

thy house. — Luke xix. 5. 

7. For we MUST all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the 

things done in his body— according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.— 2 Cor. 
v. 10. 

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SIX OF CHEIST'S DIEECTIONS. 

1. Turn.— (Repent.) Mark i. 14, 15, Turn from death. 

2. Look.— (Trust.) Isa, xlv. 22, (prophecy,) John, i. 29, (gospel.) Look for life. 

3. Come. — Matthew xi. 28. Come for rest. 

4. Abide. — John xv. 4. Abide for fruitfulness. 

5. Ohey.—Sohn xv. 14. Obey for friendship. 

6. TTaic/i.— Mark xiii. 36-37. Watch in readiness for the coming of Him who thus 

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CHRISTIAN SERVICE. 

1. Whose Servants are we .«— Rom. vi. 16. 

2. What do the Servants of Sin receive ?— (Wages.) Rom. vi. 23. 

3. Why do the Servants of Righteotcsness not receive Wages J — Because they 

they are rewarded as sons, and not as servants. Col. iii. 24. 

4. Hoio raay we get free from the service of Sin i — John viii. 36; Rom. viii. 2. 

5. When liberated from Sin, are we free from Service ? — Rom. vi. 18. 

6. In what Relation do we serve when free from Sin ? — Gal. iv. 7. 
7." From what Motive should we serve ? — 2 Cor. v. 14, f. c. 

8. In what manner should we serve ? — Col. iii. 23. 

9. What is the Reward of Christian Serviee .'—Matt. xxv. 20 ; 1 Peter v. 4 ; 

Daniel xii. 3. 

10. Upon what principle is Christian Service rewarded ?—l Cor. iii. 13, 14 ; 

Rev. xxii. 12. 



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WHOSOEVER. 

Warnings of the Law.— Ex. xxx. 25, 26, 33-38; Lev. xxii. 21; Num. xix. 18. 

Gospel Promises. — John iii. 14-16; John xi. 25, 26; Acts ii. 21; Rom. x. 11-13. 

Gospel Warnings. — Mark viii. 34-39. 

Gospel Plan. — (Believe — Confess— Abide), 1 John v. 1 ; 1 John iv. 15 ; 2 John i. 9. 

The Christian'' s Condition. — Matt. vii. 24 ; Matt. xii. 50. 

The Farewell Invitation.— Rq\. xxii. 17. 



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THREE GREAT FACTS. 

1. God*s Thoughts of JJfan.— Ezek. xxxiii. 11; John iii. 16; Rom. v. 8; 1 Tim. ii. 3, 4; Titus ii. 11; 

2 Peter iii. 9; 1 John iv. 10. 

2. Christ's Work for ilfart.— Isa. liii. 5; Matt. xx. 28; Rom. v. 7; 1 Cor. xv. 31; 2 Corinthians v. 21; 

Gal. iii. 13; 1 Peter ii. 24. 

3. Value of Christ's Blood.--Ex. xii. 13; Lev. xvii. 11; Matt. xxvi. 28; Eph. i. 7; 1 Peter i. 18. 19; 

1 John i. 7; Rev. v. 9. 

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PRAYER. 

1. What Prayer is.— Job xxiii. 3, 4, 5 ; John iv. 24; Ps. Ixxx. 18; Zech. xii. 10; Phil. iv. 6. 
5. How we should Pray. — 

In faith, Ps. xx. 6; Ps. Ixii. 8; Matt. xxi. 22; Mark xi. 24; John xv. 7; Heb. xi. 6; 
James v. 15 ; 1 John v. 14, 15. 

In sincerity, 2 Chron. vii. 14; Deut. iv. 29; Ps cxlv. 18; Jer. xxix. 13; James iv. 3. 

In the name of Jesus, John xiv. 13 ; John xv. 16 ; 1 John v. 14. 

Relying on the Holy Spirit to help our infirmities, Rom. viii. 26 ; Rom. viii. 27. 

With persevering importunity, Psalm Ixxxvi. 3 ; Isaiah Ixii. 1 ; Luke xi. 5-8; Luke 
xviii. 1-7; Rom. xii. 12; Eph. vi. 18. 
3. When we should Pray.— Luke xxii. 33; 1 Thess. v. 17 ; Col. iv. 2; 1 Tim. ii. 8. 

A. Where we should Pray. — 

In private. Gen. xxxii, 24; Ps. v. 3; Ps. Iv. 16, 17; Dan. vi. 10 ; Matt. vi. 5, 6. 

In the family and socially, Genesis xxxv. 2, 3, 7 ; Jer. x. 25 ; Matthew xviii. 19, 20 ; 

Acts i. 13, 14 ; Acts x. 9; Acts xvi. 25. 
In public, Ex. xx. 14 ; 2 Chron. vii. 14; 16 ; Ps. xcv. 6 ; Isa. v. S, 7 ; Zech. viii. 21 ; 
Luke i. 10 ; Acts xii. 5. 
5. Why we should Pray.— Vs. xxxii. 6; Ps. 1. 5; Jer. xxix. 12; Jer. xxxiii. 3; Ezek. xxxvi. 37; 
Matt, xviii, 19; Luke xi. 9, 10 ; James v. 16. 

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THE BELIEVER'S REJOICING. 

1. For Salvation.— 1 Peter i. 6; Gal. iv. 19. 

2. For a Living Hope. — Col. i. 27 ; 1 Peter i. 14; Luke xi. 21. 



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THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST. 

1. The Triumph of Gospel Truth.— Rev. xx. 1-6; Matt. xiii. 31. 32; Mark xiv. 26-32; Luke xiii.18, 19; 

Dan. ii. 34, 35. 

2. A Reign of Prosperity. — Zech. xiv. 9; Ps, Ixxii. 8, 10, 11, 17; Joel iii. 18. 

8. A Reign of Peace.— Isaiah ii. 1, 2, 4; Psalm xlvi. 9; Isaiah xi. 6-9; Isa. Iv. 25; Hosea ii. 18; 

Micah iv. 3, 4. 
4. A Reign of Progress. — Ezek.xxxvi. 30; Dan. xii. 4; Habak. ii. 14; Heb. viii. 11. 
6. A Reign of Power.— Mica^h iv. 1, 2; Zech. ix. 10; Matt. xvi. 18, 19. 

6. A Reign of Purity.— Zech. ix. 20, 21; Isa. ii. 3-; Isa. Iv. 13;^ Ps. ex. 3. 

7. Followed by Apostary., the final Struggle, and Christ's Second Corning to Judge the World,— 

2 Tim. iii. 1-6; 1 John ii. 18; 1 John iv. 3; Rev. xx. 7-10; 2 Thess. ii. 8-10; 1 Thess. v. 1-4; 
Matt. xxiv. 37-39; Luke xvii. 26-30; Rev, xx. 11-15. 

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CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL. 

Christ is the Saviour of Men. — 2 Tim. i. 10. Receive Him. 

Christ is the Door. — John x. 9. Enter and be saved. 

Christ is the Way. — John xiv. 6. Walk. ye in Him. 

Christ is the Light of the World. — John viii. 12. Walk in the Light. 

Christ is the Bread of Life. — John vi. 85. Eat and be satisfied. 

Christ is the Stnitten Rock. — 1 Cor. x. 4, Drink of the living streams. 

Christ is our Peace. — Eph, ii. 14. Rest in Him. 

Christ is our Shepherd. — John x. 11. Hear His voice. 

CUrist is our Example. — John xiii. 15. Follow Him. 

Christ is our High Priest. — Heb. vii. 26. Look up to Him. 

Christ is our Lord. — John xiii. 13. Obey Him. 

Christ IS the King of Kings.— Rev. xix. 16. Wait for His appearing. 

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THE SOUL'S WELL. 

1. Man wants Water.— Fs. Ixiii. 1 ; Gen. xxi. 25; Isa. xli. 17. 

2. Where can we get it ? — Jer. ii. 13 ; John iv. 14 ; Rev. xxii. 1. 

3. What are the Wells? — Isa. xii. 8 ; Gen. xxix. 2. 

4. Nothing but the Well will do. — Gen. xxi. 16; Gen. xxv. 11 ; Gen. xxi. 19; 

Isa. xxxv. 6. 

5. Wells may be stopped up. — Gen. xxvi. 15 ; Gen. xxvi. 19, 20. 

6. Results of using the Well. — John vi. 35; Isaiah Iviii. 11 ; Gen. xlix. 22 ; 

John vii. 38. 

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CONFESSION OF SIN. 

1. The Duty of Confession.— Ley. v. 5; Num. v. 6, 7; Jer. iii. 13. 

2. To Whom to Confess. —Joshua, vii. 19; Jas. v, 16; Jer. xiv. 20; Dan ix. 8; 1 Chron. xxi. 8. 

3. The Results oj Co7ifession.—Fs. xxxii. 5; Prov. xxviii. 13; 1 John i. 9. 

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 

The Soul addressing, and addressed, through the Word. 



Question, Micah vi. 6, f. c. 
Request, Ps. Ixxxv. 7. 
Acknowledgment, Ps. Ixv. I 
Request, li. 9. 
Question, Ps. Ixxvii. 7. 
Statement, Ps. xlii. 2, f. c. 
Request. Ps. vi. 2, f. c. 



Ans. Heb. x. 19-22. 

Ans. Titus ii. 11. 

Ans. Isaiah i. 18. 

Ans. Isaiah xliv. 22. 

Ans. John vi. 37, 1. c. 

Ans. Isaiah Iv. 1; John vii. 37. 

Ans. Isa. xli. 10; Eph. vi. 10. 



THREE ASPECTS OF LIFE. 

1. €h'ace.— Life "in*' Christ, bringing a new Condition and a new Experience, 2 Cor. v. 17. 

'X Gratitude. — Life"/or" Christ, manifest in anew Estimate and a new Ambition, Phil. iii. 7-9. * 

3. Glory.— Lite "with" Christ,— "in God"— in Glory, Col. iii. 3, 4. 



THE POWER OF PRAYER. 

1. Great Events of the New Testament connected ivith it. — 

Baptism and anointing of Jesus, Luke iii. 21, 22, 

Transfiguration, Luke ix. 28, 29; 2 Peter i. 17. 

Choice of Twelve, Luke vi. 12, 13; 1 Peter ii. 21. 

Filling Judas' place. Acts i. 23, 24. 

Descent of Holy Ghost, Acts i. 14 ; Acts ii. 1 ; Acts iv, 31. 

Under persecution. Acts xii. 5. 

Missionary work, Acts xiii. 3; Acts xiv. 27. 

2. Encouragement to this Holy Exercise. — 

Agreement of even two, Matt, xviii. 19. 

Unlimited resources, Matt. xxi. 22. 

Persistence, Luke xi. 9, 10. 

Whatsoever of faith in Jesus, John xiv. 13, 14; John xvi. 23, 24. 

Watching for prayers, Eph. vi. 18. 

Uncarefulness— all need— all trouble, Phil. iv. 6, 7. 

Prayers of Gospel', Col. iv. 2, 3; 2 Thess. iii. 1, 2. 

3. In Faith— nothing loavering. —Ja^mesi Q, 

4. Importunity,— huke xviii. 1-8. 



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THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD. 

1. It converts the Soul — Psa. xix. 7-11; Jer. xxiii. 22. 

2. It makes clean.— Fsa.. cxix. 9. John xiii. 8-10; John xv. 3; Eph. v. 26. 

3. It Quickens. — Psa. cxix. 50, 93. 

4. It Enlightens and Convinces of Sin. — Psalm cxix. 130; Proverbs vi. 20-23; Hosea vi 4-6: 

c. f. John iii. 19-21 and Eph. v. 11-14. 

6. It gives Life.—lssi. Iv. 2, 3 ; Matt. iv. 4; John v. 24; John vi. 63, 68; John xx. 31. 

6. It accomplishes God's purposes. — Isa.lv. 11. 

7. It is like a Fire and a Hammer. — Jer. xxiii. 29. 

8. It is Stronger than if one rose from, the Dead. — Luke xvi. 29-31. 

9. It saves the Soul.— Acts xi. 14 ; Acts xiii. 26; Rom. i. 16 ; 1 Tim. iv. 16; 2 Tim. iii. 15; James i. 21. 

10. It is Able to build Up.— Acts xx. 32; Rom. xv. 4; 1 Cor. x. 11; 1 Peter ii. 2. 

11. It prodvces Conviction of Sin. — Rom. iii. 20; Rom. vii. 9-13; James ii. 9. 

12. It produces Faith. — Rom. x. 17. 

13. It produces Joy and Peace. — Rom. xv. 13. 

14. It is the Power of Ood.—l Cor. i. 17-25; 1 Cor. ii. 4, 5. 

15. It is a Savor of Death unto Deaths or of Life unto Life,— 2 Cor. ii. 16, 17. 

16. It appeals to every Man's Conscience.— 2 Cor. iv. 2. 

17. It pulls down Strongholds. — 2 Cor. x. 4, 5. 

18. Is a Schoolmaster unto C^m^.— Gal. iii. 19-24. 

19. It is the Sword of the Spirit.— Eph. vi. 17; Heb. iv. 12. 

20. Stops the mouths ofGainsayers. — Titus i. 9-11. 

21. It gives the New Birth. — James i. 18; 1 Peter i. 23. 

22. It gives Knowledge of the Possession of Eternal Life,—1 John v. 9-13. 

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DEATH. 

We see in what all term death, the separation of body and spirit. We call body and spirit united 
in soul, a person. We do not call body alone, or spirit, alone, person. The Apostle prayed. 

1 Thess. V. 23, "and your whole spirit, soul., and body be preserved." We know nothing of 
spirit, except through some bodily form, or attribute. Hence our Lord Jesus Christ had, 
and has a human body. 

1. Penalty for Sin. — Gen. ii. 17 ; Rom. v. 12; Rom. vi. 23; 1 Corinthians xv. 21, 22; Ezekiel xviii. 4 ; 

James i. 15. 

2. Death in 5in.— John viii. 21, 24; Eph. ii. 1 ; Matt. viii. 21; Rom. viii. 6; Col. ii. 13. Separation 

to Sin is death. 

3. Death for 5'm.— Romans v. 8, 6; 1 Thess. v. 10 ; 1 Cor. xv. 13; 2 Cor. v. 15; Matthew xxvii. 46; 

Heb. ii. 9. Separation from God eternally is death for sin. 

4. Death to Sin.— B,om. vi. 6-8, 11; 2 Cor. v. 14; 1 Peter ii. 24. Separation to God is death to Sin. 
6. Death, a State of being.— MB.tt. xxii. 32; John v. 25; Rom. vi. 5; John v. 24; 1 Thess. iv. 16; 

2 Tim. ii. 11 ; 1 John iii. 14. 

6. Death an Eternal State.— Num. xxiii. 10 ; Dan, xii. 2; Matt. vii. 12; Matt. xxv. 46; Rev. ii. 11 ; 

Rev. XX. 14. 

7. Escape from Eternal death only Possible in Time.— John viii. 51; John xi. 25, 26; John iii. 16; 

James v. 17, 20; Rev. xx. 6. 

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NEGLECTED DOCTRINES OF THE BIBLE, No. 1. 

1. The Person and Office of the Holy Ghost— 

(a) Person Divine: Gen. i. 2, 1. c, Creation; Matt. i. 20, (begotten), Author of human 
nature of Lord Jesus Christ; 2 Peter i. 21, Author of the Word ; Acts v. 34, called God. 

(&) Office of the Spirit : Matt. iii. 16, 17 ; Matt. iv. 1, inhabitation of Christ's human bodv. 
(Predicted) —John xiv. 16, 17, promise of Indwelling; John xiv. 26, teacher; 
John xiv. 26, witness of Christ; John xvi. 13, 14, not speak of Himself. (Fulfilled) — 
Acts ii. 4, indwelling ; Acts iv. 8-13, fullness of Spirit connected with being in Christ; 
Acts iv. 3, witness of resurrection; Acts vii. 65; revelation of Jesus; Romans viii. 26, 
office in prayer; Eph. vi. 18, watching for His utterance; Jude 20, 21, in Holy Ghost. 

2. Distinction He makes in the Sinner — 

Flesh and Spirit, John iii. 6 ; Rom. vii. 22, 23 ; Rom. viii. 2 ; 

Rom. viii, 6; Rom. ix. 1, f. c. 
Old and new man, E])h. iv. 22-24. 
Natural man, 1 Cor. ii. 14. 
Spiritual man, 1 Cor. ii. 12, 13. 
8. Recognition of His distinction for Gospel Work— 

Rom. i. 7; 1 Cor. i. 2; 2 Cor. i. 1 ; Gal. i. 1, 2; Eph. i. 1; Phil. i. 1; Col. i. 1, 2; 1 Thes8. i. 1 ; 

2 Thess. i. 1; 1 Tim. i. 2; Titus i. 4 ; Heb. iii. 1; James i. 1; 1 Peter i. 1, 2; 2 Peter i. 1 ; 

Jude 1; Rev. i. 4. 

4. Way and Means of co-operating with the Holy Spirit— 

Disciples are witnesses, John xv. 27. 

Co-laborers, 1 Cor. iii. 9. 

Salt, Matthew v. 13. 

Light, Matt. v. 14. 

Teaching, function of Church, Matt, xxviii. 19-20. 

Proclamation, Mark xvi. 15, 16; Acts viii. 4. ' 

Work of Christians, Eph. vi. 12. 

Work out, Phil. ii. 12, 13. 

Hold forth, shine, Phil. ii. 15, 16. 

Separation, 1 John iii. 2, 3. 

Doing right, loving brethren, 1 John iii. 10. 

Assurance and liberty, Psa. Ii. 12, 13. 
6. Our Motive to Obedience— 

Col. iii. 4, 5, Appearing with Christ ; Philippians iv. 5; 1 John iii. 2, 3 ; 2 Peter iii. 13, 14; 
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NEGLECTED DOCTEINES OF THE BIBLE, No. 2. 

1. DiSPENSATIONAL TRUTHS.— 

Gen. ii. 1-3, Creation ; Gen. i. 26, Lordship of Creation; Gen. ii. 20-24, Marriage. 

(a) Ante-Diluvian Age. — Sin Separation — Gen. iii. 24, Death, destruction; Gen. iv. 26, Soni i 

of God; Gen. vi. 12, How perverted; Gen. vi. 5-7 ; Gen. vi. 8, Grace. 

(b) Post-Diluvian u4^e.— Protection of Race, Genesis ix. 6 ; Increase of Light, Gen. ix. 11 ; , 

Condition, Gen. xi. 1 ; Rebellion, Gen. xi. 4; Judgment, Gen. xi. 5-8. 

(c) Patriarchal ^^e.— Increase of Light, Genesis xvii. 1, 2; Isaac, Genesis xxvi. 24; Jacob, 

Genesis xxxv. 9-12; Joseph, Genesis xli. 39-41 ; Ex. ii. 23-25; More light, Ex. iii. 14; ; 
Judgment and Grace, Ex. xiv. 30, 31. 

(d) Mosaic or Jewish Age. — Increased Revelation, Ex. xxv. 21, 22 ; Increase of Holiness, , 

Ex. xxxi. 13, 15; Culmination, 1 Kings x. 23 ; 1 Kings xi. 4, 9, 10 ; Distance, Mai. iii. 7 ; ; 
Judgment, Matt, xxiii. 37-39. 

(e) Christian Age. (Pentecostal.) — By Incarnation, 1 Tim. iii. 16; Opened by Gift of Holyr 

Spirit, Acts i. 4, 5; Continued by Revelation, 2 Peter i. 19; Conflict, increase of Light, 
2 Tim. iii. 1, 12, 13 ; Judgment, 2 Peter iii. 10; 1 Cor. xv. 43. 

2. Resukrection of Christ.— Acts xvii. 18; Rom. iv. 25; 2 Corinthians v. 14, 15; John xii. 24; , 

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QUALIFICATIOMS FOE CHRISTIAN WORKERS. 

1. Assurance.— Luke X. 20; 2 Cor. iv. 13, 14 ; John iii. 11; John iv. 42; 2 Cor. v. ], 9, 10, 11; 

Acts xxii, 14, 15; 2 Tim. i. 11, 12 ; 2 Cor. i. 3-7 ; 1 John iv. 13, 14 ; 1 Cor. ii. 12, 13. 

2. Love. — 1 Cor. xiii. ; 1 Thess, iii. 12; 1 Cor. xiv. 1; 1 John iv. 7-16. 

3. Hunger for the Salvation of Souls. — John iii. 16; Romans ix. 1-3; Matt, xxili. 37; Rom, x. 1; 

Luke xix. 41, 42; 2 Corinthians xii. 14, 15; Acts xx. 18-21. 26, 27; Phil. i. 8; Rom. i. 11-16; 

1 Thess. ii. 7, 8. 

4. A longing to reach the neglected. — Mark vi. 34; Luke xix. 10; Luke v. 31, 32; Rom. xv. 20, 21; 

Luke XV. 7 ; James ii. 1-9. 

6. Prayerfulness.—MsLTk \x. 29; John xii. 21, 22; Luke iv. 15-17: Acts i. 4, 14; Luke ii. 5-13; 

Acts iv. 24-31. 

«. BoldJiess.— Acts iv. 13, 29, 31; Eph. vi. 10-20 ; Acts vii. 51-60, 1 Thess. ii. 2; 1 Cor. xvi. 9-14. 

7. Readiness to Suffer and to R^aii.— Matthew v. 11, 12 ; CoL i. 24; Acts v. 41; 2 Thess. iii. 13; 

2 Cor. iv. l; James v. 7, 8, 10; Phil. i. 29; 1 Peter ii. 19-25; Phil. ii. 17; 1 Peter iv. 12-19; 
Phil. iv. 11-13. 

8. Joy in the Lord.—'^eh. viii. 10; Phil. iv. 4-7; 2 Corinthians vii. 4; 1 Thess. v. 16 ; Phil. iii. 3; 

Ps. Ii. 12, 13. 

9. Humility.— ^2Xt. xx. 25-28; Phil. i. 15-18; Matt, xxiii. 5-12: Phil. ii. 5-8; Acts xx. 19; Jude 9; 

Rom. xii. 3, 10. 

10. Oneness of Heart and Soul loith the Children of God. — Acts iv. 32, 33; Philippiaus ii. 1-4 ; 

Rom. xvi. 17, 18. 

11. Discrimination.— }il2iXX: vii. 6; Phil. i. 10, mars:.; Matt. xii. 20; 2 Tim. ii. 15; 1 Cor. ix. 19-22; 

Jude 20-23; 1 Cor. x. 23, 32, 33; Matt. v. 43-47; 1 Cor. xiv. 6-11, 23-25. 

12. Tenderness.— Vs. cxxvi. 5, 6; Luke xix. 41, 42: 2 Cor. ii. 4; Acts xx. 19, 31; Philippians iii. 18; 

Matt. xii. 20; Luke xiii. 34, 35. 

13. Blameless ness. — Matthew vii. 3-5; Phil. iii. 17: Romans ii. 17-24; Col. i. 9-11; Rom. xv. 14; 

1 Thessalonians ii. 10: Rom. xvi. 19: James iii. 10-13; Eph. v. 11-18; 1 Peter ii. 11, V2. 15; 
Phil. ii. 15. 

Ii. Consecration and Devotedness — Luke v . 10, 11; 1 Corinthians i:^ 23-27; John xxi. lS-22 ; 

2 Cor. V. 13-15; Acts xx. 18-27: Philippians i. 19-21: Rom. xii. 1, 2: Phil. ii.20, 21, (with 
Matt. Vi. 24) : 1 Cor. ii. 2. 

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TEMPERANCE. 

The use of strong drink leads to — 

Shame. Genesis ix. 21. Poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. 

Confusion. Gen. xix. 33. Complex trouble. Prov. xxiii. 29, 30. 

Folly. Esther i. 10, 11. Sacrilege. Dan. v. 1-5. 

Defeat. 1 Kings xx. 16-20. Eternal rejection. 1 Cor. vi. 10. 



GOD'S LOVE. 

1. It is boundless.— 1 John iv. 8 ; John xiii. 1; Isa. xlix. 15, 16 ; Jeremiah xxxi. 3 ; Rom. v. 6, 8; 

John iii. 16; 1 John iv. 9, 10. 

2. What it has Done for v^. — Isa. Ixiii. 9; Rev. 1. 9; Gal. ii. 20; Isa. xxxviii. 17. 

3. What it is Doing.— Heh, vii. 25 ; Heb. ix. 24; John xvi. 7 ; Eph. iii. 17, 19 ; Eph. ii. 4. 

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94 BIBLE READINGS. 

THE BURNT OFFERING. 

Lev. vi. 8-13. 

It must be studied in the Light of John v. 39, 46; Luke iv. 21; Luke xxiv. 27, 32, 44, 45; Actsiii. 18 
Acts xvii. 2, 3; Acts xviii. 23; Rom. xv. 4; 1 Cor. x. 4, 9, 11 ; 2 Tim.iii. 16, 17; 2 Pet. i. 19, 21 

1. The Lord spoke out of the Tabernacle.— Ex. xxv. 22; Lev. xvi. 14; Lev. xvii. 11; 2 Cor. v. 19,21 

Rom. V. 8, 9; Heb. x. 19-22. Burnt offerings first named. 

2. A Male without Blemish. -Luke i. 35; John viii. 29, 46; John xiv. 30; Heb. vii. 26; IPet. ii. 22, 

3. Offered of His Own Voluntary TTi^;.— John x. 17, 18; Matthew xxvi. 53; John xix. 28, 30 ; 

Heb. ix. 11, 15. 

4. Accepted to Tnake an Attonement. — John i. 29; Heb. ix. 26. 

6. Flayed, Cut in Pieces. — Luke xxii. 44 ; Matt, xxxii. 46; Heb. v. 7 ; Isa. lii. 14; Isa. liii. 3-9. 

6. Burn — to hum incense — Burnt Offerings— to ascend— mount up.— Eph. v. 2; Heb. x. 7-14. 

7. Fire burning all Night.— John xiv. 3, 15, 17; Actsi. 11; Titus ii. 14; Heb. x. 37; 1 John ii. 28, 

Rev. xxii. 16, 20. 

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GOD IS ABLE. 

1. Able to Save. — James iv. 12. 

2. Able to make you Stand. — Rom. xiv. 4. 

3. Able to succor the tempted. — Heb. xi. 18. 

4. Able to tnake all Grace abound. — 2 Cor. ix. 8. 

5. Able to Keep.— 2 Tim. i. 12. 

6. Able to perform His Promises. — Rom. iv, 20. 

7. Able to do more than we ask. — Eph. iii. 20. 

8. Able to present us faultless. — Jude 24; Rom. viii. 33; 

1 John iii. 2. 

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MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST TO THE WORLD 
BY HIS PEOPLE. 

1. His Purpose and Order. — John xvii. 18; John xx. 21, 22; Mark xvi. 15. 

2. Li/e.— James i. 18; John i. 13; 1 Peter i. 23; 1 John iii. 9; CoL iii. 1-5. 

3. Membership.— 1 Cor. vi. 15 ; Eph. v. 30; 1 Cor. xii. 27 ; Rom. xii. 5t Rom. vi. 13. 

4. Position.— Matt. x. 40; 1 John iv. 17; Gal. ii. 20; 2 Cor. v. 14, 15;. 2 Cor. v. 17. 

5. Light.— John viii. 12; Matt. v. 14, 15; 2 Cor. iv. 6; Phil. ii. 15, 16; Matt. v. 16; Eph. v. 8. 

6. C/m racier.— Matt. v. 13. 

7. Olfice.-l John iv. 15, 16; John xv. 27; 1 Peter ii. 9; 1 Peter ii. 12; Colossians i. 27 ; Gal. iv, 1«; 

Gal. i. 15, 16; Titus ii. 14. 

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THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. 

1. Things to be Thankful for.—l Thessalonians v. 18; Isa. xlviii. 20; Ps. xxviii. 7 ; Luke xv. 24; 

1 Peter iv. 12, 13; Dan. vi. 22; 1 Tim. i. 12; Col.i. 12. 

2. G-round of Thanksgiving. — 1 Cor. xv. 67; Gal. vi. 14. 

8. Front of Thanksgiving.— VBdilm-acW. \; 1 Timothy iv. 5; Psalm cxix. 54; Luke xvii. IS, 18; 

Acts xvi. 25, 26. 
4. The Fellowship of Prai^e.-^Luke xix, 87, 38; Rev. vii. 11, 12. 

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EEGENERATIGN. 

1. Corruption of Human Nature.— John iii. 16; Rom. viii. 7, 8 ; John iii. 3. 

2. Trinity engaged in New Birth.— John i. 13; 1 Peter i. 3; John iii. 6; Titus iii. 5. 
8. The New Birth.— 

(a) Word of God, James i. 18 ; 1 Peter i. 23; 1 Cor. iv. 15. 

lb) A new creation, 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15; Eph. ii. 10. 

(c) A spiritual resurrection, Rom. vi. 4, 6 ; Eph. ii. 1, 15; CoL ii. 12. 

{d) A new spirit, Ezek. xxxvi. 2, 6; Rom. vii. 6. 

(e) A new man, Eph. iv. 24; 2 Cor. iv. 16. 

if) Likeness to God in Christ, Eph. iv. 24; Col. iii. 10; Rom. viii. 2-3. 

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CITIES OF REFUGE. 

Plain; on mountains. Easy; no rubbish. City well provisioned. Gates never closed. 
Guilty ones welcome. Room for all. 

1. Kedesh.— {B.olmess.)—13.eh, xii. 14; Rom. iii. 19, 26. 

2. Schechem. — (Shoulder.) — Isa. ix. 6; Luke x v.; Ex. xxix. 6. 

3. Hebron. — (Joined.) — Josh. xii. 15. 

4. Bezar. — (Fortified, security.) — Col. iii. 4 ; John x. 26, 30. 

5. Ramath..— (Height, rest.) —Matt. xi. 28. 

6. Golan, — (Joy.) — Habak. iii. 17; Isa. xxxv; John xvii. 13, 

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FIVE GATHERINGS. 

1. Sorrowful Gathering. — Matt, xxvi, 17-25, 

2. Hopeful Gathering. — John xx. 19, 20. 

3. Triumphant Gathering. — Acts ii. 44. 

4. Spiritual Gathering. — Mat* xviii. 20. 

5. Glorious Gathering .—'i Thess. ii. 1 ; Eph. i. 10. 



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96 BIBLE READINGS. 

GIFTS OF GOD. 

1. All good Gif^sfrom Ood.—l James i. 17. 

2. All things Because of Christ. — Num. xiv. 18; Rom. viii. 32. 

3. God gives Forever. — Rom. xi. 29. 

4. Christ the Chief.— Isdi. xlii. 6; Isa. Iv. 4; John iii. 16; John iv. 10; John vi. 32, 33. 
6. Holy Spirit. — Luke xi. 13; John xiv. 15, 17 ; Acts ii. 1. 

0. Gifts to the Church. — Ps. Ixviii, 18; Eph. iv. 7, 11; Ps. Ixxxiv. 11; James iv. 6; Prov. xi. (5; 
James i. 5; Eph. ii. 8 ; Phil. i. 29; Rom. v. 16, 17; Ps. Ixviii. 35 ; Ezek. xi. 19; Ps. xxix 11 ; 
John xiv. 27; Matt. xi. 28, 29; Rom. vi. 23; 2 Peter i. 3. 

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HE LEADETH US. 

Into a Stonn. — Matt. viii. 23. 
Green Pastures, — Ps, xxiii. 
Safely. — Ps. Ixxviii. 53. 
Through Depths. —Vs. evi. 9. 
Right Way, Ps. cvii. 7. 
Paths not knotvn. — Isa. xl. 11. 



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A MESSAGE FROM GOD. 

Jfone Righteous.— Uom. iii. 10, 22, 23; James ii. 10; John iii. 3. 
God Loves You,—l John iv. 9 ; John iii. 16; Rom. v. 8 ; 1 John iv. 9, 10; 1 John iii. 16. 
You may he Saved.— Acts xvi. 31; 1 John i. 7; Heb. vii. 25; 1 Tim. i. 15; John iii. 17 ; Actsiv. 12. 
How. — 2 Cor. vi. 2 ; Heb. iii. 15 ; Prov. xxvii. 1; Isa. Iv. 6; Isa. i. 18. 
Believe and Live.— John iii. 14, 15; John iii. 36; John v. 24; Acts xiii. 39; Rom. iv. 6. 
Reject and you Perish. — Rom. vi. 23; Ezek. xviii. 4; Mark xvi. 16; Luke xiii. 3; Hebrews ii. 8 
John iii. 36 ; John iii. 18. 

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CHAEACTERISTICS uF SONSHIP. 

1. Real Love to the Father. — Gal. iv. 6. 

2. Friendly intercourse with the Father. — Rev. viii. 15. 

3. Exercise Childlike Trust in Father. —Matt. vi. 31, 82. 

4. Co^ifiding Submission to the Father.— Msnk xiv. 36 ; Gal. Iv. 6. 
6. Loving, Willing Service.— 2 Cor. v. 15; Matt. v. 16. 

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BLOOD OF CHEIST. 

1. Every Believer within Covenant of Qrace. — Matt. xxvi. 28; Heb. xiii. 20, 21. 

2. Purchase price God paid for the Church. — Acts xx. 28. 

3. True and only ground of Peace with God.— Col. i. 20; Acts x. 36. 

4. Brings its very Near His Heart and Throne. — Eph. ii. 13. 

5. Secures Present Redemption, — Eph. i. 7; 1 Peter i. 18, 19. 

6. Propitiation for the Believer. — Rom. iii. 25; Heb. ix. 5. 

7. Removes every Spot and Stain of Sin.—l John i. 7. 

8. Justifies all who Trust Him — even amid the defilements of Nature, and sorrowings of Sin 

Rom. V. 8, 9. 

9. Sanctines us— or separates as from our old Adam condition and from the World, and concecrates 

us to God. Heb. xiii. 12; Heb. x. 14. 

10. Delivers us from Sin — and condemnation of those, works which, however admired by the w^orld* 

are " dead," because they do not springfrom iife-giving principles of faith. Heb. ix. 13, 14* 

11. Bestoics Heaven — takes us out of dominion of Satan, puts us under care of Him who is Head 

overall. Col. i. 12, 13, 14. 
12. ~ Imparts Eternal ii/e— and complete oneness with our Risen Lord. John vi. 54-56. 

13. Has gained access for us into the Presence of God — with perfect confidence. Heb. x. 19 21. 

14. Bond of Union and Communion. — 1 Cor. x. 16. 

15. If accepted as God^s way of Salvation^ Evidence of Eternal Election. — 1 Peter i. 2. 

16. Rejected, increases Guilt and Doom of Sinner, — Heb. x. 29. 

17. One of God's Witnesses on Earth. — 1 John v. 8; 1 John v. 6; Johnxix. 34. 

18. Speaks in the Father's Ear— of law, honor, justice vindicated, divine righteousness displaced. 

Free, certain and eternal salvation to the believers. Heb. xii. 24. 

19. Victory over Satan.— Rey. xii. 11. 

20. Raises His people to Highest Dignity. — Rev. i. 5, 6. 

21. Joyful Theme of Redeemed.— Uex. v. 9, 10. 

22. Washes Robes of tried Saints in Last Day, and introduces them to Eternal frlories.-E^v, 

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GKACE. 

Leading Text — Rom. vi. 14. 

1. The Author of Grace.— John 1. 14, 16, 17; Rom. v. 15 ; 2 Cor. 1. 8 ; Rev. i. 4; 1 Peter v. 10. 

2. Its Nature.— nomajis xi. 6; Romans v. 16, 17; Isa. Iv. 1 ; Eph ii. 8, 9; 2 Cor. viii. 9 ; Eph. ii. 7* 

Titus iii. 4, 5 ; 2 Cor. xii. 9 ; Rom. v. 20, 21. 

3. Its Subjects.— Titus ii. 11 ; John i. 17; Rom. iii. 22, 23; 1 Peter v. 5 ; James iv. 6. 

Examples, Mark vii. 24-30; Luke xviii. 9-14 ; Luke vii. 1-10. 

4. Its Administration.— 1 Cor. xii. 4-7; Acts xx. S2 ; 1 Peter iv. 10; 2 Peter iv. 7 ; Matthew x. Si 

1 Cor. XV. 10. 

5. Its Effects.— Rom. xi. 5 ; Gal. i. 15; Rom. iii. 24 ; Eph. i. 6, 7 ; Eph. ii. 4, 5, 8 ; 2 Thess. ii. 16, 17 ; 

2 Cor. i. 12; 1 Cor. xv. 10, f. c; Gal. v. 22, 23. 

6. Duties under Grace,— B.eb. xii. 28; Heb. xii. 15 ; 2 Cor. vi. 1 ; 2 Tim. ii. 1 ; Revelation xxii. 17; 

Heb. iv. 16. ^ , 

It. A. 



98 BIBLE RI<:AD1x\GS. 

IN HTM. 

1. Through this union the believer is forgiven and accepted with God, Christ has taken his sina 

upon Him, and he is covered with Christ's righteousness. For Paul says in one place "There 
is now therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." And in another " He 
hath made us accepted in the Beloved, in whom we have redemption through His blood even 
the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace." 

2. It is associated with regeneration, as in these words, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new cr3a- 

ture. Old things are passed away, and behold all things are become new."' Christ dwells'in 
him, and he in Christ. He is partaker of the divine nature. He has the spirit of Christ and 
so repeats the life of Christ. 

3. This itnion brings with it a glorious mheritance. They who are in Christ are tliereby joint 

heirs with Christ, as it is written, "in whom we have an inheritance, being predestinated ac- 
cording to the purpose of Him who vvorketh all things after the counsel of His own will." 

4. Those who are in Christ have a peaceful arid hopeful death. They ''die in the Lord." They 

''sleep in Jesus." Other unions are sundered by dissolution, but that cannot sever this potent 
and mysterious tie. Lazarus, though dead was still the " friend " of Jesus, and now that the 
Lord has gone to glory, His people when absent from the body are present with Him in spirit 
while their bodies rest in the grave waiting the sound of the archangel's trumpet when the dec- 
laration shall be verified that *'ia Christ shall all be made alive." 

W. M. T. 



THE JOY OF THE LORD. 

1 

1. Spiritual,— Ps^iAv. 7, 

2. Its Source.— Vsa.. xxxiii. 1; Psa. xliii. 4; Phil. iii. 1 ; Ps. xx. 5; Rom. v. 2; Psa. xvi. 11. 

3. Where found on Earth.— Vsii. cxlix. 5; Psa. cxviii. 15; Psa. xxi. 6. 

4. Means of Securing Jo?/.— Psa. v. 11; Psa. lxiii.7; Heb. iii. 6. 

5. Degree of Joy Obtainable. —Zech. ix. 9; Luke xi. lO ; John xv. 11 ; John xvi 20 22 24- 

John xvii. 13; 1 John i. 4. > . » 

6. In Spite of Lack of Natural Good.-l Thess. v. 16 ; Habak. iii. 17, 18 ; Phil. iv. 4 • 2 Cor vii i* 

Isa. xxxv. 10; Gal. v. 22; Rom. xiv. 17; Rom. xv. 13; 1 Peter i. 8, 9. ' ' * 

M. H. B. 



SALTATION. ^' • ■"^:::-''\ 

1. Fundamental TrutJi.—Jer. iii. 23; 1 Thess. v. 5. Salvation of God is of His appointment. 

2. Comes to us through Christ.— John [ii. m ; Hebrews v. 9; Matthew xviii 11- John iii 14 16- 

Rom. iv. 25; Acts V. 31. ' • . ♦ 

3. Design of Salvation.— Ma,tt. i. 21; Rom. v. 9; Gal. i. 4; John iii. 16, 17. 

4. Evidences of a State of Salvation,— Rouidins xiv. 17; 1 Peter i. 8; 1 John iii 14* Psalm i 2* 

Ps. cxix. 81; Ps. xcvii; Ps. cii; Heb vi. 9, 10. ' . • * 

5. Salvation Emphasized and Illustrated.— Jude 3; Hebrews vii. 25 ; Hebrews v 9 • Heb ii 8* 

2 Tim. iii. 10. t • . ♦ 

6. A Present Salvation.— 2 Cor. vi. 2; Heb. iv. 7. 

7. How Obtained.— John iii. 36; Matt. xi. 28; Matt. vii. 7; Isa. xlv. 22: Rev. xxii. 17. 

H. G. D. 



BIBLE READINGS. 

WANTED FOR THE LORD'S SERVICE. 



99 



1. Men like Daniel. — Dan. ix. 3, 4; Deut. xi. 25. 

2. Men like Shadrach. — Ex. xx. 4, 5 ; Dan. iii. 4, 7, 23, 25, 28. 

3. Men in Authority, of Nehemiah's Faithful Spirit. — Neh. xiii. 4-9; Jude 3, 4; 

Rev. xiv. 10, 11. 

4. Men like Paul, taught of the Spirit. — 1 Cor. xii. 3; 1 Cor. ii. 2, 13. 

5. Men like the Be reans, gifted loith Wisdom. — Acts xvii. 10, 12; Deut. xxix. 29; 

John xvi. 13: Matt. iv. 10, 11. 

6. Young Men, like Jdbez, who fear God. — 2 Thess. ii. 8. 

7. Young Women, like gracious Ruth. — Ruth i. 16, IT ; Ruth ii. 11, 12 ; 1 Jotu\ iii. 14; 

Ps. ci. 1, 4. 

8. Matrons, like the pious Shunamite.—'l Kin*,^s iv. 8, 13; Titus ii. 5; 1 Tim. v. 9, 14. 

9. Fathers, like Abraham. — Gen. xix. 19; Prov. x.21; Luke xix. 20, 24, 26. 

10. Brethren^ like Aaron and Hur.—Ex. xvii. 9-12; 2 Thess. iii. 1-2. 

11. Sisters, icho, like Mary, sit at Jesus* feet.— LukQ x. 38, 39; .John xii. 2; Matthew 

XXV. 37-40. 

12. Heads of Families, like Caleb. — Acts x. 2; Num. xiv. 24; Joshua xxiv. 1.5. 

13. Wives, to pattern in Prov. xxxi. 10-31. 

14. Mothers, like Hannah.— 1 Sam. i. 10, 11, 24-28. 

15. Maidens, taught of God. — 2 Kings v. 1-4, 15; Prov, xv. 23. 

. IQ. Serva7its of Christ, like Barnabas. — Acts xi. 22-26; Acts ix. 27 ; Galatiana vi. 2 ; 
1 Thess. V. 14. 



1 Chron. xxix. 5. 

O for the Altar's glowing- coal 
To touch my lips, to fire my soul: 
To purge the sordid dross away, 
And pure as crystal make my clay ! 
Then, if a messenger He ask, 
A lab'rer for the hardest task, 
Through all my weakness and my fear. 
Love shall reply, " Thy servant's here !" 
Nor should my willing soul complain, 
Though every efifort seemed in vain : 
Enough the recompense shall be. 
To work and suffer, Lord, for Thee. 



Anom. 



D0DDKI1>3K. 



FORGIVENESS. 



1. Promised.—Isa.. i. 18; Jer. xxxi. 34; Jer. 1. 20; Heb. viii. 12. 

2. Through Christ.— Lev. xvii. 11 ; Heb. ix. 22 ; Zech. xiii. 1 ; 1 John i. 7; Eph. i. 9 ; Rom. iii. 25; 

Col. 1. 4; Luke i. 69, 70; Acts. v. 31 ; Acts xiii. 38. 

3. Freely, Readily, Abundantly.— Isn. xliii. 25; Neh. ix. 17; Ps. Ixxxvi. 5; Isa. Iv. 70; Rom. v. 20; 



100 BIBLE READINGS. 

BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 

Introductory — The relation of the Blood to Salvation — 

Atonemenl throug-h penalty, Lev. xvii. 11. Without the shedding of blood, no remission, 
Heb. ix. 19-22. ''Great, through the blood of the everlasting covenant;" "the Good 
Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep," lleb. xiii. 20; Ileb. xxi. 
1 Sacramental /c?ea.— "Blood of the New Testament," Matt. xxvi. 28. 
{a) Shed for you, addressed to His ministering disciples. 
(6) Shed for many. 

(c) In ail cases for the remission of sins. Luke xxii. 20. 

The blood is the life, typifying the spirit which is life, John vi. 53-.56. Where "commnnion" 
is equivalent to communication. 1 Cor. x. 16. 
2. Sevenfold Work of the Blood— 

{a) The church is ]nuchased with blood. Acts xx. 28. 

\h) Sanctified by the blood, Heb. xiii. 11, 12, (the sin and burnt offerings) ; the blood of the 
covenant, Hebrews x. 28, 29. The blood of sprinkling and its work. Lev. viii. 30. 

(c) Made nigh by the blood of Christ, Eph. ii. 13. 

(d) Justified by the blood. Rom. v. 8, 9. Justified by his blood: saved by his life. 

\e) Redemption through his blood. Redemption is the forgiveness of sins, Eph. i. 7. Ob- 
tained by Christ entering the heavens with his blood. Heb. ix. 11, 12. The precious 
blood of Christ is the instrument of our redemption, 1 Peter i. 17-19. 
(/) Washed from our sins in His blood, Rev. i. 5, 6. Because of Christ's love; 1 John i. 7, 

"if we walk in the light." 
(g) Purges the conscience from dead works. Heb. ix. 13, 14. Old Testament purifying the 
flesh, versus New Testamert, purging the conscience. 

G. J. B. 



THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 

1. The Event is Certain. — John xiv. 3; Acts i. 10, 11; Rev. xxii. 20. 

2. The Time is Unknoivn.— To men. Matt. xxv. 13; to angels, Matt.xxiv. 35; to Jesus Himself, 

Mark xiii. 32. 

{a) It is, however, to be regarded as always near, 1 Peter iv. 7; Phil. iv. 5; Rev. xxii. 7-10. 
(h) It will come unexpectedly. To saints. Matt. xxiv. Matthew xxv. 6,6; to sinners, 
Matt. xxiv. 37-39; Matt. xxiv. 48-50; 2 Peter iii. 3, 4; 1 Thess. v. 2. 

3. The Manner of His Comm(7.— AsIIe went. Acts i. 9-11. As the lightning, Matt. xxiv. 27. In 

clouds. Matt. xxvi. 64 ; Rev. i, 7. In power and glory, Matt, xxvi, 27; Matt. xxiv. 3o. 
With His angels Mark viii. 38; 2 Thess. i. 7. With His saints, 1 Thess. iii. 13; Jude 14. 
Attending circumstances : 1 Thess. iv. 16. 1 Thess iv. 17 ; 2 Peter iii. 10. 

4. The Purpose of His Coming.— To reveal hidden things, 1 Corinthians iv. 5. To judge the world, 

Ps. 1. 3, 4 ; John v. 22; 2 Tim. iv. 1; Rev.fxxii. 12 ; Matt. xxv. 32. To punish the wicked, 
2 Thess. i. 7-9; 2 Thess. ii. 8. To complete the work of redemption, Hebrews ix. 28; 
1 Peter i. 5 ; Phil, i 6; Phil. iii. 20, 21. To be glorified in His saints, 2 Tiiess. i. 10. To 
reign, Dan. vii. 13, 14 ; Rev. xi. 15; to receive and crown His own, John xiv. 3; Col. iii. 4; 
1 John iii. 2; 1 Peter v. 4 ; Dan. vii. 27; Rev. xxii. 5. 
6. How Believers should Regard this Event. — With love, 2 Timothy iv. 8. With expectant desire, 

Phil. iii. 20 ; Titus ii. 23; 2 Peter iii. 12; with patient waiting, 1 Cor i. 7 ; 1 Thess. i. 10. 

(a) They are commanded to watch for Him, Luke xxi. 36; Luke xii. 37; Matthew xxv. 13 
Mark xiii. 35-37. 

(6) To be always ready, Matt. xxii. 44; Luke xii. 40; Matt. xxv. 10. 

G. A. 



BIBLE READINGS. 101 

THE GOSPEL INVITATION. 

Subject, Matt. xi. 2S.— " Come unto me all ye that labor &nd are hea^^y laden, and I will give you 
rest." 

1. The one who invites is the Mediator. — Matt. xi. 3. The question asked in this verse is answered 

in the 28th verse of the same chapter 
Commission of God the Father. Matt. xi. 27; Matt. 28. 18. 
Fitted to be Mediator, because knowing the Father's will, and revealing- His love. Matthew 

xi. 27 ; John i. 18. 
Reveals the way to God. John xiv. 6. 
Mediates before God, in Divine and human nature pleading his own merits. Ileb. vii. 25; 

Heb. xii. 24. 
Appeals to men by showing Hi ? wounded hands and side, John xx. 20, 27. 

2. Who are Invited. — Matt. xi. 28, " all" and yet especially here : 

The convicted. Acts ii. 37, Peter's heareis. Acts ix. 4, Saul. Acts xvi. 29, 30, the jailer. 

The thirsting. John vii. 37; Isa. v. 1; Matt. v. 6. 

The penitent. Jer. xxxi. 18. Luke xviii. 13, the publican, Lukexv. 17, the prodigal. 

3. The Promise to those that Come. — Matt. xii. 28, " Rest." 

Saved and brought into communion with God's people, and into the light. Acts ii, 41; 

Acts ix. 13. 
Forgiven, Isa.xliv. 22; Micah vii. 19; Ps. Ii. 17. 
Quickened, John iv. 14. 
Justified, Rom. v. 1; Luke xviii. 14. 
Prevailing in prayer, John xvi. 23. 

Grounded in love and understanding God's love. Eph. 3. 12. 
At rest from one's own works. Heb. iv. 9. 
■ Restored to sonship, Luke xv 20. 
Heirs to eternal inheritance, Heb. ix. 15. J. N. C. 



SEAECH THE SCRIPTURES.. 

1. Titles of the Scriptures.— Rom&ns i. 1, 2; Luke xi. 28; Col. iii. 16; James i. 18; Psalm xl. 7, 8 ; 

Neb. viii. 3; Rom. iii. 1, 2; Eph. vi. 17. 

2. Contents of the Scriptures.— LQwitiaw^ xix. 2; Deut. iv. 5 ; 2 Peter i. 19; 2 Peter i. 4; Acts x. 43; 

John V. 28, 29, 39. 

3. Descriptions of God's TTord.— Psa. xii. 6; Psa. xix. 7; Psa. cxix. 160; Psa. xciii. 5 ; Heb. iv. 12; 

Psa. cxxxix. 17; Isa. xl. 8. 
A.Power and SuMciency of the Scriptures. -Fssilm cxix. 130; John xv. 3; Psalm cxix. 9; 

John XX 31 ; Psa. cxix. 49 ; Psa. xix. 7 ; Matt. iv. 4: 1 Peter ii. 2; Psa. Ixxin. 24 ; 1 John ii. 5; 

John vi. 35 ; Psalm cxix. 18 ; John xvi. 13; Proverbs ii. 3, 5; 1 Cor. ii. 12, 13; Acts xvii. 11 ; 

Deut. xii. 32. 
5 Our Duty with the Scriptures.— J)eut. vi. 1; James i. 22; Deut. vi. 7; Neh. viii. 8. Matt. iv. 13; 

Ephesians vi. 17; Psalm cxix. 97; Psalm i. 2; Psalm cxix. 193 ; Psalm cxix. 42; Psa. cxix. 81 ; 

Psa. cxix. 162; Psa. cxix. 158; Psa. cxix. 33; Job. xxiii. 12. 
6. The Danger of Neglecting the Bible.— Rob. x. 28, 29 ; Heb. ii, 1, 4; Heb. xii. 25. 



DECISION. 

1. Its Necessity.— Luke ix. 62; Josh. xxiv. 14, 15; 2 Chron. xv. 12; Ex. xxxii. 26. 
2 Its Power —Matt. vi. 24 ; James i. 8; 1 Kings xviii. 21; Deut. v. 32 ; Ex. xxxii. 26; Ruth i. 16; 
2 Chron. x^'. 8. Anon. 



102 BIBLE READINGS. 

REPENTANCE. 

1. Ood's Dejfinition,— J er.xvin. 7-10; Job xlii. 1-6; James v. 19, 20; Ex. xiii. 17; 2 Cor. vii.9-11 

2. Calls to Jtepentance.— Ma^rk ix. 13; Revelation ii. 5; Rev. ii, 16; Rev. ii. 20; Rev. iii. 1-3; 

Acts xvii. 30; Mark vi. 12. . 

3. Living Repentance.— 1 Veter iv . 3, 4, 19; Luke xxii. 42; 1 Peter iv. 1, 2; Ephesians vi. 6, 7; 

Isa.lv. 6, 7; Isa. i. 16-20. 

G. J, B. 



THE PEACE OF GOD, 

1. Peace Defined.— The opposite of fear, Judges vi. 23. Tiie opposite of disquietude and trouble 

Mark iv. 39; John xiv. 27. 

2. Its Source. — Ps. cxix. 165; Ps. xxxvii. 37; Isa. xxxii. 17. 

3. The Author of Peace is God.~ 

The Father, Haggai ii. 9 ; Rom. xv. 33. 
The Son, Isa. ix. 6, 7 ; 2 Thess. iii. 16. 
The Spirit, Gal. v. 22; Rom. viii. 6. 

4. Peace an Object to be Desired. — Numbers vi. 26; Psalm cxxii. 6, 7, 8; Isaiah Iii. 7; Matt. v. 9; 

Luke ii.l4; John xiv. 27; John xx. 17, 21; Eph. vi. 15; Romans i. 7; 1 Peter i. 2; .lude 2; 
Rev, i. 4. 

5. Characteristics of this Peace. --lsst,.\y. 12; Isa. xlviii. 18; John xiv. 27 ; Psalm iv. 8; Compare 

Jer. viii. 11. 

6. Hoio Peace is Secured. — 

(a) God's part, Isa. liii. 6; Col. i. 19, 20; John xvi. 33; Heb. xii, 11. 

(b) Man's part, Rom. v. 1; Phil. iv. 6, 7; 2 Peter i. 2. 

7. The Promise of Peace.— Isa.. xxvi. 3. 

Concluding,— Col. iii. 15. 

<). C. M. 



THE LAST JUDGMENT. 

1. A Judgment Day, — Acts xvii. 31; Rom. ii. 16; Jude 6; 1 Peter iii. 7. 

2. After the Resurrection. — 2 Tim. iv. 1; Rev. xx. 12, 13; Heb. ix. 27; Acts xxiv. 15. 

3. Christ the Judge.— Acts xvii. 31; 2 Cor. v. 10 ; John v. 25, 30. 

4. All must appear. — Acts xvii. 31 ; 2 Cor. v. 10; Rom. xvi. 10, 12; Matt. xxv. 32. 
6, A Righteous Judgment. — Acts xvii. 31 ; Psa. xcviii. 9; Rom. ii. 2, 6, 1]. 

6. Things to come into Judgment. — Eccl. xii. 14. 

(a) Our words, Jude 15; Matt. xii. 36, 37. 

(b) Our thoughts, 1 Cor. iv. 5. 

(c) Hidden things, Rom. ii. 16; Heb. ii. 3. 

7. No Judgment for those in Christ.— Rom. viii. 1 ; John v. 24; M^tt. xxv. 34. 

8. The Judgment Day Ufor the Ungodly.— 2 Peter iii. 7 ; Job xxi. 30 ; Jude 25; 1 Johnii. \ 

1 John iv. 17. 

9. When will the Day occwr .«— Matt. xxv. 31; Mark xiii. 32, 37. 

10. What will be the Result ?— John v. 29; Matt. xxv. 46. 

J. E. R. 



BIBLE READINGS. 103 

HEAVEN. 

1. Where is Heaven «— 2 Kings i. 11; Psa. xlvii. 4; Acts i. 10, 11; Matt. iii. 16, 17: Luke iii 22 

John i. 32, 33; 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17 ; 2 Thess. i. 7. 

2. How may ive get there ?— Isaiah xxv. 8, 9; 1 Samuel xii. 23, 24 ; Proverbs xv. 24; Proverbs xv. 9; 

Matt. vii. 21; John x. 9; John xiv. 4-6; Eph. ii. 13-18; Heb. ix. 27, 28; Hebrews x. 19, 20; 
Rev. iii. 8. 

3. Who will he there :^— Eccl. v. 2; Psa. cxv. 3; Psa. cxxiii. 1; Isa. vi. 1 ; Matt. vi. 9; Dan. vii. 13; 

Mark jcvi. 19; Luke xxiv. 51 ; John xiv. 2, 3; Acts vii. 55, 56; Heb. ix. 24; Psalm Ixviii. 17 ; 
Matt, xviii. 10; Matt. xxiv. 36; Matt. xxv. 31; Rev. vii^ 11, 12; Revelation vii. 9, 10; 
Rev. vii. 13-15; Matthew v. 3; Matthew xix. 14; Matt. viii. 11; Psa. xvi. 11; Isa. xhx. 10; 
Rev. vii. 16, 17; Rev. xiv. 13; Rev. xxi. 4; Rev. xxii. 3. 

W. E. H. 



SEVEN ^' WITHOUTS. " 

1. Without .BZood.— Hebrews ix. 22: John vi. 53-56; Acts xx. 28; Romans iii. 24-26 ; Romans v. 9; 

Eph. ii.l3; Col. i. 14, 20; Heb. ix. 12, 14; Heb. x. 19; Hebrews xii. 24; Hebrews xiii. 12, 20; 
1 John V. 6; Rev. xii. 11. 

2. Without Faith.— Reb xi. 6; John i. 12; John iii. 14-18; Actsx. 43; Acts xiii. 39; Acts xvi. 31; 

Rom. iv. 5 ; 1 Cor. i.21; 2 Cor. i. 24; Gal. ii.. 16; Ephesians ii. 3; Philippians iii, 9; Col. ii. 12; 

1 Thess. ii. 10; 2 Thess. i.lO; 1 Tim. i. 16; 2 Tim. i. 12; Heb.iv. 3; James ii- 23; 1 Peter i. 5-9; 

2 Peter i. 1; 1 John iii. 23; Jude 5; Rev.ii. 13. 

3. Without Holiness.— Ex. xix. 6; Lev. xi. 44, 45; Lev. xix, 2; Lev. xx. 7, 26; Lev, xxi. 8; 

Num. XV. 40; Deut. vii. 6; John xvii. 19; Acts xxvi. 18; Rom. vi. 19-22; 1 Cor, vi. 11; 
2 Cor, vi. 14-18 ; Gal. v. 24; Eph. v. 1; Phil. iii. 3; Col. i. 21, 22; 1 Peter i. 15, 16. 

4. Faith WMhout Works.— J^mes ii. 26; Matt. v. 16; John vi, 29; Rom. xi, 6; 1 Cor. xv. 5, 8 

Gal.ii. 16; Eph. ii. 9, lO; 1 Tim. vi, 18; 1 Tim. iii. 17; Titus ii. 14; Titus iii. 5-8; Rev, xiv. 13. 

5. Without Fear.— Luke i. 74,75 ; John xv. 11 ; John xvi. 24 ; John xvii. 23; Rom. v. 5; 2 Cor. v. 14: 

Gal, V. 6; Phil. iv. 4; 1 Thess. v. 16; 2 Tim. i. 7; 1 John iv, 17, 

6. Without Chastisement.— Ueb. xii. 8 ; Matt. v. 11, 12 ; Luke vi. 22, 23 ; Acts v. 41; Rom. v. 2 

Rom. viii. 17, 18; 2 Cor. iv. 17; 2 Cor. xii. 10; Heb, x. 34; 1 Peter iv. 12-14. 

7. TFi«/iowt J/^.— Johnxv. 5; Judgesxxvi. 17; Neh. vii. 10; Ps. viii, 2; Isa. xl. 31; Acts i. 8 

Acts vi. 8; 2 Cor. iv. 7 ; 2 Cor. xii. 9 ; Eph. iii. 16; Col. i. 11; 1 Peter i. 5. 

J. H. B. 



RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. 

1. Prophecy of the Resurrection of Christ.— Fs. xvi. 8-11. 

2. Testimony of the Evangelists that Jesus rose from the Dead.— Matt, xxviii. 7; Mark xvi. 9; 

Luke xxiv. 6; John xx. 19. 

3. Testimony in the Acts of the Apostles.— Acts i. 3; Acts ii. 32; Acts iii. 15; Actsx. 40; 

Acts xiii. 30. 

4. Testimony of the Apostle Peter.— 1 Peter i. 3; 1 Peter i. 21; 1 Peter iii. 18. 

5. Testimony of St. Paul, in his Epistles.— Rom&.ns Yu 9 ; 1 Cor. xv. 4; 1 Thessalonians iv. 14; 

2 Tim. ii. 2, 8. 

All read 1 Cor. xv. 20. 

H. P. H. 



104 BIBLE READINGS. 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER'S MOTIVES TO EARNEST 

WORK. 

Your Scholar, by Nature. — Eph. ii. 3. 

Your Scholar, by Grace. — Epli. ii. 19. 

Your Office^ in Christ's stead. — 2 Cor. v. 20. 

Your Work. — 2 Tim. iv. 2. 

Your Responsibility. — 2 Cor. ii. 15, 16. 

Your Sufficiency .—'il Cor. iii. 5. 

Your Helper. — Rom. viii. 26. 

Your Source of Supply. — James i. 5. 

Your Aim.— ^\A\. iv. 13; Col. i. 28. 

Your Trust.— 1 Tim. iv. 10. 

Your Reckoning. — Rom. viii. 18. 

Your Reward. — Dan. xii. 3 ; 1 Peter v. 4. 

W. C. P. 



CHRISTIAN ATTAINMENTS. 

1. Taught of God.—Ias^. liv. 13; 1 John ii. 27; John x.8, 4; Mai. iii. 16; Acts x. 2. 

2. The Example of Christ.— John x. 4., 21; Act« viii. 2; Rev. xvii. 14; John i. 47; Col. iii. 12; 

Matt. V. 6. 

3. Likeness to God.— Msitt. v. 44, 45, 48; Eph. v. 1; Matt. v. 16. 

H. B. C. 



BENEFITS OF TRIALS. 

1. Teaching God's Power and Faithfulness.— Fs. xxiv. 19; Ps. xi. 3, 4; Ps. xxi. 18, 19. 

2. Learning to Trust in God. — Deut. iv. 30, 31 ; Nehemiah i. 8, 9 ; Psalm Ixxvii. 84; Isa. x. 20, 21; 

Hosea ii. 6, 7. 

3. A test of Faith and Obedience.— Gen. xxii. 1, 2 ; Heb. xi. 17; Ex. xv. 23-25; Deut. viii. 2, 16; 

1 Peter i. 7; Rev. ii. 10. 

H. B. C. 



CHILDREN OF GOD. 

1. According to God's Promise.— Rom. ix. 8; GaL iii. 29. 

2. By Grace.— Gal. iii. 7, 26; Ezek. xvi. 3-6; Rom. iv. 16, 17. 

3. Through Christ Jesus.— John i. 12; Gal. iv. 4; Eph. i. 5, 6, 11. 

4. Likeness to God.— Matt. v. 44, 45, 48: E{)h. v. 1; Matt. v. 16. 



H. B. C. 



BIBLE READINGS. 105 

SIN AND FORGIVENESS. 

SIN. 

" Sin isanj' want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God." 

1. Sin Pervades our ^^ature.—'^s. xiv. 2, 3 ; Rom. iii. 10. Rom. vii. 14; Rom. viii. 7, 8; Rom. vii. 18, 21; 

Gal. v.lT; Isa. lix. 12; Romans vii. 15,19, 21; John iii. 4; Romans iii. 19; Romans v. 12-21 ; 
Jer. xvii. 9; Matt. xv. 18-20; Gal. v. 17; Eph. ii. 1-3; Isa. liii. 4-6; 2 Cor. v. 21; Gal. iii. 13; 
Heb. vii. 26; Heb. iv. 15 ; 1 Peter ii. 22. 

2. Sin is Antagonistic to God and opposite to the Divine C/m m6'«e?*.—Habak. i. 13; Rom. viii. 7; 

Heb. xii. 14. 

3. Sin and Salvation are therefore mutually exclusive.— Ezek. xviii. 4; Rom. vi. 23; Gal. ii. 10; 

James ii. 14. 

4. Sin Unforgiven makes Terrible — 

The thought- of God, Gen. iii. 9, 10; Luke xii. 45; Heb, xii. 29. 
Tlie thought of death, Heb. ii. J5; 1 Cor. xv. 56. 
The thought of judgment, Isa, xxxiii, 14; Heb. x. 27. 
The restlessness of the heart, Isa. Ivii. 20, 21. 
It's self-loathing, Job xlii. 6; Isa. vi. 5. 

5. The Fearfulness of Sin is measured by — 

It's punishment in the lost sinner, Matt. xxv. 41; Mark ix. 44.. 45. 
It's punishment in the sin-bearer, Matt. xxvi. 36-39 ; Matt, xxvii 46. 

FORaiVEXESS. 

1. God only forgives, Man does not merit. — Micah vi. 6, 7; Heb. x. 1, 2; Gal. iii. 10-13; Ps. cxliii. 2: 

Ps. cxxx. 3; Rom. iii. 19, 24. 

2. Forgiveness grounded on the A tonement of Christ. — Isaiah liii; Heb. ix. 22, 23; Ephesians i. 7 

1 Peter i. 18, 19 ; 1 John i. 7; 1 John ii. 2. 

3. The Atonement originates in the Love of God. — Ex. xxxiv. 6, 7; Isa. xiiii. 25; Isa. xlviii, 9 

John iii. 16; 1 John iv. 10. 

4. Freely Applied. — Isa. Iv. 1, 8, 9 ; Revelation xxii. 17 ; Acts ii. 38 ; 2 Cor. vii. 9-11 : Romans v. 1 

Actsxvi. 31; Eph. ii. 8. 

5. Friiits.— Rom. v. 1 ; Matt. ix. 2; Psa. cxxx. 4; Matt. xi. 28; Isaiah Ivii. 18-21; 1 John iv. 10, 19 

Isa. xliv. 22; Rom. viii. 33, 34; Heb. x. 21, 22. 

6. Evidences.— MaiM. xviii. 35: Titus ii. 11, 12; 1 Peter i. 22; 1 John iii. 13. 

T. G. D. 



GIFTS OF GOD. 

1. Eternal Life.— John x. 28; John iii. 36. 

2. Rest.— M3itt, xi. 28 ; Jer. vi. 16. 

3. Peace. — John xiv. 27; Isa. xxvi. 3, 4: Job. xxii. 21. 

4. Holy Spirit.— John xiv. 16; Ps. Ii. 12; Titus iii. 5; 2 Cor. iii. 17; 1 Thess. i. 6. 

G. F. P. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 

1. Promised. — John xiv. 23; 1 John i. 3; 1 Cor. i. 9; 2 Cor. xiii. 14. 

2. Desired.— Fs. xlii. 1; Phil. i. 23; Ps. Ixiii. 5, 6; Phil. iv. 6; Heb. iv. 16. 

3. Exemplified. — Genesis v. 24; Gen. vi. 9; Gen xviii. 33; Gen. xxxii. 24-29; 

Ex. xxxiii. 11-23. Anon. 



106 BiBLi: ki:adings. 

THE BELIEVER'S CONFIDENCE. 

1. The Privilege of Assurance. — Job xix. 25; Rom. viii. 16; 1 John iii. 2; 

Isa. xii. 2; 1 John v. 13; Rom. v. 1; 1 John iii. 22, 

2. Founded on God's Word,— Co\. ii. 2; 1 Thess. i. 5. 

3. Is of Faith.— Eph. iii. 12; 2 Tim. i. 12; Heb. x. 22. 

H. B. C. 



GOD'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS WORD. 

1. Givenby Inspiration.— 2T\m. in. 16; Acts i. 16; Acts i v. 24, 25; Actsixxviii. 25; 1 Cor. ii. 4, 5, 9-13; 

Heb. i. 2; c. f. xii. 25; Heb. ii, 1-4; Heb. iii. 7; Heb. ix. 7, 8; Heb. x. 15; 2 Pet. i. 21. 

2. The Oracles of God.— Acts vii. 38; Rom. iii. 2; Heb. v. 12; 1 Pet. iv. 11. 

3. The Word of God.- Prov. xxx. 6, 6 ; Isa. xl. 8; Mark vii. 13 ; Luke iv. 4 ; Luke xi. 28 ; Acts iv. 31 ; 

Acts vi. 7; Acts xi. 1; Acts xii. 24 ; Acts xiii. 44 ; 2 Peter iii. 2-10. 

4. The Word of the Lord. — Jer. viii. 9; Acts viii. 25; Acts xiii. 4C-49 ; Acts xvi. 32 ; 1 Thess. i. 8; 

2 Thess. iii. 1. 

6. The Word of Truth.— 2 Cor. vi. 7; Eph. i. 13 ; Col. i. 6; 2 Tim. ii. 15; James i. 18. 

6. The Words of Life.— John vi. 63, 68 ; Acts v. 20 ; Acts xx. 32; Romans x. 8 ; 2 Corinthians v. 19; 

Col. iii. 16; Psalm cxix. 89; 2 Cor. i. 19, 20; Matthew vii. 24; Psa. cxix. 140; Luke viii. 11; 

1 Peter i. 23" Luke xxiv. 27, 44; John v. 39; Actsx. 43; John xii. 48; Rom. ii.l6; 1 Peter i. 23, 26. 

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FELLOW-HELPERS. 

3 John i. 8; Luke v. 7 ; L'^a. Ixi. 6; 2 Chron. xxvi. 13; Romans vi. 3, 9; Ezra v. 2; 2 Samuel x. 11; 
Eccl. iv. 10; Isa. 1. 7, 9. 

1. ^'Helping together by prayer.'* — 2 Cor. i. 11; Col. xi. 12; 2 Chron. xx. 9; Heb. iv. 19. 

Private, public. 

For ourselves, for Christians, for the unsaved, for special cases. 

** In the spirit." 

2. By ''assembling together" in religious meetings.— Mai. iii. 16; Heb. x. 25 ; Acts iii. 1; Ex. xvii. 12. 

Front seats and first moments. 

3. Showing Salvation hi Song. — Ps. Ixii. 5; Ps. xxviii. 7; Ps. xcvi. 1, 2. 

""New Songs and Old." 

Singing to save. 

Singing with silent prayer. 

4. By ''the word of Testimony.''— "Rev. xxii. 11; Ps. cxix. 46, 99; Eccl. v. 2. 

Animated, Biblical, Concise. 
6. By " watching for Souls."— Ueh. xiii. 17 ; S. of Sol. iii. 2, 4. 

In preaching services, etc.; in dailj' life ; inquire name, etc.; introduce to preacher. 

6. By Helping Inquirers.— Acts viii; 30-35; Acts xvi. 3; John iii. 5, 14, 16, 36; Jas. i. 22. 

Probing, promises, prayer. 

7. By inviting persons to Church and to Christ.— M&tt. xxii. 9, 10; Isa. ii. 3; Ps. cxxii. 13; Job i.42. 

Slips printed and given away. Strangers and neighbors visited. 

8. By Distributing good Beading, (a) At close of meetings, (b) Daily, (c) In letters. 

'•Thy God Helpeth Thee." 1 Chron xii. 18; Ps. liv. 4; Job xxvi. 2; Acts xxvi. 22. " Lord 
help me," Matt. xv. 25. 

^ ' W. F. C. 



BIBLE READINGS. 107 

PRECIOUS THINGS. 

1. The Precious Things to Ood.—Ps. Ixxii. 14; Ps. xlix. 8; Ps.cxvi. 15; Isa.xliii.4; 1 Peter ii. 4-6. 

2. The Precious Things to God's Children.— Vs. xxxvi. 7; Ps. cxxxix. 17; 1 Peter i. 7 ; 2 Peter i. 1 ; 

1 Peter i. 18, 19 ; 1 Peter ii. 7 ; 2 Peter i. 4. 

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GOD'S LOVE. 

1. A part of Bis Nature.— 2 Cor. xiii. 11; 1 John iv. 8 ; Eph. ii. 4; Zeph. iii. 17; Isa. xlix. 15, 16; 
Kom. viii. 39; Hosea xi. 4 ; Jer. xxxi. 3. 

1 Manifested through Christ.— John iii. 16; Titus iii. 4; Luke xix. 10; Gal. ii. 2; John xv. 13; 

1 John iii. 16. 

8. Sh<non in Gifts to His Children.— 1 John iii. 1; 2 Corinthians ix. 15 ; James i. 5 ; Psalm xxix. 11; 

2 Thess. i. 7 ; Rom. v. 6. 

H, B. C. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S CALLING. 

Called by God.— Rom. viii. 30; 2 Thess. ii. 14. 

Called of Jesus Christ.— Rom. i. 6; 1 Peter v. 10. 

Called according to His purpose. — Rom. viii. 28, 29, 30; 2 Tim. i. 9. 

Called by the Gospel.— 2 Thess. ii. 14. 

Called out of darkness into light. — 1 Peter ii, 9. 

Called the sons of God. — 1 John iii. 1 ; Gal. iv. 6, 7. 

Called in one body. — Col. iii. 15. 

Called to be saints.— Rom. i. 7; 1 Cor. i. 2; 1 Thess. iv. 7. 

Called into fellowship. — 1 Cor. i. 9. 

Called into the grac^ of Christ.— Galatians i. 6. 

Called in hope.— Eph. i. 18; Eph iv. 4; Rom. v. 2. 

Called to virtue. — 2 Peter i. 3. 

Called to eternal hfe.— 1 Tim. vi. 12. 

Galled to an eternal inheritance. — Heb. ix. 15; 1 Peter i. 4. 

Called to blessing. — 1 Peter iii. 9. 

Called to liberty.— Gal. v. 13. 

Called to peace. — 1 Cor. vii. 15; Col. iii. 15. 

Called to suffer.— 1 Peter ii. 21. 

A heavenly calling. — Heb. iii. 1. 

Called to glory.— 1 Thess. ii. 12; 2 Thess. ii. 14; 1 Peter v. 10; 2 Peter i. 3. 

A holy calling.— 1 Thess. iv. 7 ; 2 Tim. i. 9. 

That worthy name by which ye are called. — Acts xi. 26; James ii. 7. 

Ye see your calling, brethren. — 1 Cor. i. 26. 

The prize of the High calling.— Phil. iii. 14. 

Faithful is He that calleth you.— 1 Cor. i. 9; 1 Thess. v. 4, 2. 

Walk worthy of.— Eph. iv. 1; Col. i. 10; 1 Peter i. 15, 16 ; 2 Peter i. 10. 



G. A. H. 



108 BIBLE READINGS. 

RIGHT AND WRONG ZEAL. 

1, Four Kinds of Zeal to be Condemned.— BVmd zeal, Romans x. 2 ; Bitter zeai, James iii. 14 ; 

Proud zeal, 2 Kins^s x. 16; Partial zeal, Matt, xxiii. 23 
2 False or Mistaken Zeal— 2 Samuel vl Q, 7; 2 Samuel xxi. 2; 2Kingsx. 16; Matthew xvi. 22; 

Matt xxiii. 15' Luke ix, 54, 55; Luke xxi. 20; John xviii. 10. 11 ; Acts xxii. 3, 4; Rom. x. 2; 

Gal. i. 14; Gal', iv. IT; Phil. iii. 6. 
3. Right Kinds of ZeaZ.-Eccles. ix. 10; Num. xxv. 18; 2 Cor. vii. 11 ; Col. iv. 13; Acts xxi. 20; 

Rev. iii. 19. - r 



SEVEN ALLUSIONS TO '' ONE THING." 

1. Deaf/i.— Eccles. iii. 19; John v. 40 ; 2 Cor. v. 14; Eph. ii. 1; 1 Tim. v. 6; 1 John v. 12. 

2 Salvati07i.—M.dirk x. 21 ; John iii. 7-18 ; Acts. iv. 12 ; Acts x. 43 ; Acts xiii. S(9 ; Acts xvi. 31 

Rom. x. 9; Eph. i. 7 ; Col. i. 12-14; 1 Peter i. 19 ; 1 John i. 7. 

3 Assurance —John ix. 24; John i. 11, 12; John v. 24 ; Matt. xi. 23; Isa. xiv. 22 ; Lev. xvi. 21 

Heb. X. 19-22 ; Eph . ii. 1, 10; 1 John v. 13. 

4 Commu7iion.—Fs^. xxvii. 4 ; 1 John i. 3; Luke v. 7 ; Ex. xxv. 22-30; Rom. viii. 17; 1 Cor. iii. 21-2.3 

1 Cor. X. 16-21; 2 Cor. vi. 14-18. 

5 Deyoierfnm.-Lukex. 42; Luke xi. 34-36; John viii. 12; Johnxv.7; 2 Corinthians v. 14, 15 

2 Cor. vi. 10; Gal. i. 10 ; Phil. i. 21 ; Rev. xiv. 4. 

6. Progress.-VhW. iii. 13, 14 ; 1 Cor. iii. 12-15; 1 Cor. ix. 24-26 ; Gal. vi. 7 ; 2 Timothy iv. 6-8 

Jas. i. 12; 2 Pet. iii. 18; Rev. iii. 11. 

7. The Coming of the Lor(«.-2 Peteriii. 8; Matt, xxiv 36-51 ; Mark xiii. ^3-37; Luke xn. 35-40 

Luke xvii. 26-37; Luke xxi. 34-36; John xiv. 3; Acts ). 11: Rev. vu. 7, 12, 20. 

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SEVEN-FOLD POWER OF CHRIST. 

1 His^Power in Heaven.-dohii i. 1-3, 10; 1 Cor. viii. 6; Eph. iii. 9; Col. i. 6; Isa. ix. 6; Ps. xxxiii. 6; 

Ps. cii. 5 ; John v. 17, 18 ; John x. 30; Phil. ii. 6 ; Rev. i. 8 ; Rev. ni. 14 
2. His Power on Earth.-mti. ix. C; Matt. xi. 5; Matthew viii. 27; Luke vii .50; John xi. 13 44 

Matt. viii. 2, 3; Matt. ix. 20-22; Matt. xvii. 18 ; Mark iii. 5; Luke vu. 11-15 ; Luke vni. 23-24, 

3 His Power in Death.— John xii. 24, 33; Lev. xvii. 11; Isa. liii.5 ; Matt. xxvi. 28; Rom. v. 10 ; 

1 Cor. xi. 26; Gal. iii. 13; Eph. i. 7; Phil. ii. 8; Col. i. 21, 22; Heb. ii. 9; 1 John i. 7; Rev. v. 9. 

4 His Power in Resurrection.-Rom. i. 4; Rom. iv. 25; Rom. vi. 6-9; Rom, viii. 34; Eph. ii. 4-6; 

CoLii. 12; Col. iii. 1-4; 1 Peteri. 3. 

5. His Power in Exaltation. -John xiv. 19; Acts v. 31; Romans v. 10; 1 Cor. i. 24; Phil. li. 6-11 

1 Peter iii. 22; Rev. i. 18. . tt u •• i-r ia 

6. HisPowerin r7i«ercmion.--Hebrews vii. 25; Exodus xxviii. 38; 1 John ii. 1 ; Heb. n. 17, 1» 

Heb. iv. 15, 16; Heb-. v. 1, 2 ; Ps. ciii. 14; Mosea xi. 8; John xni. 1; Eph. v. 25-Zl. 

7. His Power in His Second Comm^.-Matt. xxiv. 30; l.T^ess.iv. 16-18 ; John xiv. 3 ; Col iii. 4 

1 Thess. ii. 10; 1 Thess. iii. 13; 2 Tim. iv. 8; Titus ii. 13; Heb. ix. 28 ; Heb. x. 37 ; Jas. v. 8 
1 John ii. 28. j g g 



BIBLE READINGS. 109 

CHRISTMAS BIBLE READINGS. 

PROPHECIES AMD PROMISES OF JESUS CHRIST. . ^ 

1. In the Old Testament. — Gen. xxiii. 18; Gen. xlix. 10; Num. xxiv. 17 ; Deuteronomy xviii. 15, 18; 

1 Samuel ii. 35; Job xix. 25; Ps.ii. 6; Ps. ii. 7 ; Ps. Ixxii. 11, 17; Ps. cxviii. 22; Isa. vii. 14 
Isaiah ix. 6, 7 ; Isaiah xi. 1, 2, 10; Isaiah xxviii. 16 ; Isaiah xhi. 1-3, 6, 7; Isa. hii. 4, 5, 7, 9 
Isaiah Iv. 4; Isaiah lix. 20 ; Isaiah Ixi. 1; Jer xxiii. 5; Jer. xxxiii. 14-16; Daniel vii. 13, 14 
Micah V. 2; Hag-gai ii. 6, 7; Zech. vi. 12; Zech. ix. 4; Mai. iii. 1 ; Mai. iv. 2. 

2. Coining of Jesus Christ.— Mutt. ii. 1-6 ; Mark i. 9-11; Luke ii. 8-12 ; John i. 1, 2, 16. 

3. Testimony of John the Baptist. — Matt. iii. 13, 14; Mark i. 6-8; Luke iii. 15-17; John i. 29-34. 

4. Testimony of Jesus regarding Himself. — Matthew xi. 22; Mark xiv. 61, 62; Luke iv. 18, 19: 

John iv. 85, 26. 

5. Testimony of Tivelve others of their Belief in Jesus Christ. — Johni. 45; Matt. xvi. 16; John i. 41' 

1 John iv. 14; John xx. 28; Romans i. 3 ; John i. 49; John iii. 2; ^'John xi. 27; Acts viii. 37; 
John iv. 29; Matt, xxvii. 54. 

H. P. H. 



WALKING WITH GOD. 

1. Companionship in the Walk.—Oen. iii. 8; Gen. v. 22, 24; Gen. vi. 9; Amos iii. 3. 

2. Where to TTa^A;.— Psalm i. 1 : 2 Cor. x. 2 ; Eph. ii. 2 ; Heb. xi. 24, 26; Exodus xiv. 29; Deut. ii. 7; 

Job xxix; Ps. cxxxviii. 7; Isa. xhii. 2; Dan vi. 22; Matt. xiv. 29; Acts iv. 16; Rev. i. 22. 

3. How to Walk.— Ex. xiii.21^ John viii. 12; Ex. xiv. 22; Josh. iii. 17; Ps. cxix. 45; Daniel iii. 25; 

Micah vi. 8; Mai. ii. 6; 2 Cor. v 7. 

4. Who Walk t— 1^2^. xxv. 9 ; Matt. xi. 5 ; Rev. xxi. 24. 

5. The end of the Walk.—?s, xxiii. 4; Rev. iii. 4; Rev. xxi. 24. The V/atchman. 



THE EOOL. 

1. His Belief— Vs, xiv. 1. 

2. His Walk.—'Ecci. ii. 14. 

3. His standing before God.— Eccl. v. 4; Ps. v. 5. 

4. His Mirth.— Eccl. vii. 4; Eccl. vii. 6. 

5. Hi^ Food.— Eccl, x. 12. 

6. His House.— Msitt. vii. 26. 

7. His End.— Luke xii. 20. 

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HEAVENLY PLACES. 

At the Feet of Jems.— Luke x. 39 ; John xii. 2, 3 ; Luke xxii. 48. 

Upon the Palms of my Hands. — Isa. xlix. 16. 

Shoulder. — Ex. xxviii. 12-25. 

Breast-plate.— Ex. xxviii. 12-25; John xiii. 23. G. C. N. 



110 BIBLE READINGS. 

SEVEN THINGS TO WHICH WE SHOULD TAKE HEED. 

1, That no Man deceive CTs.— Matthew xxix. 4; 1 Cor. x. 32; Matthew xxiv. 42; Mark xiii. 33-37 ; 

Luke xii. 37-40 ; Luke xxi. 34-36; John xiv. 3; John xxi. 20-23; Acts i. 11 ; 1 Cor. i, 7 ; 

1 Cor. xi. 26; Phil. iii. 20; ITness. i. 10; Titus ii.l3; Ileb. ix. 28; Rev. xxi. 7, 12, 20. 

2. What we /Zear.— Mark iv. 24; Proverbs vi. 27 ; Isaiah viii. 20; Matthew xxiv. 35; John xiv. 26; 

John XV. 3; John xvi. 13; John xvii. 17; 1 Tness. ii. 13; 1 John ii. 27. 
8. How we ffear.— Luke vii. 18; 1 Sam. iii. 9, 10; Psalm cxix. 11; Jeremiah xxii. 29; Acts xiii. 26; 

2 Tim. iii. 16, 17; Heb. ii. 1 ; Heb. iv. 2, 12; James i. 22, 25; 1 Peter i. 25. 

4. To Ourselves. — Luke xxi. 34; Philippians iii. 3; Psalm Ii. 5; Jeremiah xvii. 9; Mark vii. 21-23; 

Markxiii. 9, 23, 33; Acts xx. 28; Rom. vii. 18; 1 Cor. x. 12 ; 1 Tim. iv. 16. 
6. How we Build— 1 Cor. iii. 10; Mal. iii. 16; Matt. xxv. 40; Mark ix. 41 ; Rom. xiv. 23; 1 Cor. x. 31; 

Gal. i. 10; Col. iii. 23 ; Heb. xi. 6; 1 John ii. 28. 

6. Lest there he in Any of Us an Evil Heart of Unbelief. — Heb. iii. 12; Matthew xiii. 58; 

Matthew xvii. 20; Matthew xxi. 21, 22; Mark vi. 6; Mark xvi. 14 ; Luke xvii. 5, 6; John v. 24; 
John vii. 38: Acts ii. 44-47; Rom. i. 16; Rom, xi. 20; 2 Cor. iv. 13; 2 Tim. i. 12; Hebrews xi; 
1 Peter i. 8. 

7. The Sure Word of Prophecy.— 2 Peter i. 19; Matt. xxiv. 42; Mark xiii. 33-37; Luke xii. 35-40; 

John xiv. 3 ; Acts i. 11; 1 Thesis, i. 10; 2 Tim. iv.8; Titus ii. 13; Heb. ix. 28; Hebrews x. 37; 
James v. 8 ; Rev. xxii. 20. 

J. H. B. 



THE CHRISTHOOD OF JESUS. 

Luke xxiv. 25, 27, 44. 

Consider some of these Scriptures, and the testimony concerning their fulfilment in JesiUB : 

Deut. xviii. 15. 16, Acts iii. 22-24. 

Psa. cxxxii. 11, Acts ii. 29-36. 

Isa. ix. 6, Luke ii. 10. 

Jer. xxxiii. 14, 15, Gal. iv. 4, 5. 

Ezek. xxxiv. 23, Heb. xiii. 20. 

Dan. ii. 44, Luke i. 32, 33. 

Zech. ix. 9, Matt, xxi 7-9. 

Zech. xiii. 1, Heb. ix. 14. 

Consider, also, some additional testimonies from the New Testament Scriptures. 
1 — of Simeon, Luke ii. 25-32. 
2 — of Anna, the prophetess, Luke ii. 38. 
3 — of John the Baptist, Mark i. 1-8. 
4— of he angels, Luke i. 30-25; Luke ii. 8-11. 
5— of the Holy Ghost, Matt. iii. i6. 
6— of the Father, Matt. iii. 17; Matt. xvii. 5. 
7— by Himself, Matt, xxvii. 33 ; Mark xiv. 61, 62. 
8— of devils, Mark i. 23, 24; Mark iii. 11 ; Mark v. 6, 7 : Luke iv. 31. 
9— of death, Luke vii. 14, 15 ; Mark v. .35, 41, 42; M<itt xxvii. 52, 53. 
10— of nature, Matt, xxvii. 45, 51; Mark iv. 39, 41. 
11— of the centurion, Mark xv. 37-36. 
12— of Peter, Matt. xvi. 16; Acts iv. 8, 10-12. 
13- of Paul, Acts ix. 20; Rom. i. 1-4; 1 Tim. iii. 16. 



BIBLK READINGS. Ill 

THE CLOUD OF GLORY. 

Israels Guide. — Ex. xiii. 21. 

God our Guide.— Isa,. xlix. 10; John xvi. 13, 14 ; Ps. xxxii. 8. ». 

Must be near Him. — Ex. xiv. 20, 21. 

The Cloud a LvghL—Ex. xiii. 21; 

WalJc in Light.— l^umhers x. 34; Num. xiv. 14; Ps. cv. 39. 

Cloud a Shade.— Ex. xiv. 24, 25. 

A Warning.— 2 Tliess. i. 7, 8, 9. 

The Cloud an Oracle.— Num. ix. 15, 18. 

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THE PEACE LEFT AND THE PEACE GIVEN 

1. God is the God of Peace.— Rom. xv. 33; Rom. xvi. 20; 1 Cor. xiv. 33 ; 2 Corinthians xiii. 11; 
1 Thess. V. 23; Heb. xiii. 20; Judges vi. 24. 

S. The King and Kingdom, of Peace.— Judges vi. 24; Isa. ix. 6; Heb. vii. 1, 2; Isaiah xxxii. 17; 

Isa. lii.7; Ps. xxix. 11; Ps. xxxvii. 11; Psahn Ixxii; Micah v. 5; Haggai ii. 9; Matt. v. 4, 9; 

Luke ii. 14; Luke xix. 38. 
8. Peace I leave.— Luke vii. 5; Rom. v. 1; Eph. ii. 13-17; CoL i. 23; Job xxii. 21; Isa. liii. 5. 
4. ''My Peace I give unto You.'* — John xvii. 26; 1 John iv, 17; PhiL iv. 6, 7; Rom. v. 1. 

W. J. E. 



A PICTURE OF SALVATION. 

1 Samuel xxx. 

I Both Amalekite and his servant were under the curse of God. — Ex. xiv. 16; Ezekiel xxix. 12-16 ; 
John xvi. 11; John iii. 18; Rom. iii. 19; Rom. vii. 7; Gal. iii.lO; Ezek. xvi. 5. 

2. The joung man of Egypt was utterly helpless. — John v. 1-9. Luke x. 30-35 ; Eph. ii. 1-4. 

3. The Egyptian, forsaken and helpless, was found by David's servants. They did not wait for him 

to come to them, but they went to him. — Luke xiv. 23; Mark ii. 3-12; John i. 43-45. 

4. They brought the servant of the Amalekite unto David, who saved him by grace. There was 

no other way of saving him, if he was saved at all, for not only did he belong to a nation that 
had cruelly oppressed David's fathers, but he belonged to a band that had just burned David*s 
city of Ziklag, and had taken captive David's two wives ; so that "David and the people that 
were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep." It is 
a wonder he did not kill him, but instead of that he saved him by grace, as we are saved. 
Eph. ii. 8, 9 ; Titus iii. 4-7; Titus ii. 11-14; Rom. v. 6-8 ; Gal. iii. 13. 

6. David at once met the need of the wretch he had spared by giving him bread and water. 
John vi. 51 ; Rev. xxi. 6; John iv. 14. 

6. Thus saved, strengthened and refreshed, the young man entered joyfully into the service of a 
new master, and lead the soldiers of King David against the host of the enemy. Phil. i. 21 ; 
2 Cor. v. 14, 15; Gal. vi. 14. 

T. He shared in the spoils of victory.— 2 Tim. ii. 12 ; Rev. ii. 26 ; Rev. iii. 21 ; Rev. ii. 10; Rev. iii. 11; 
Matt. XV. 14-30; Luke xix. 12-27; 1 Cor. iii. 11-15. 

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112 



BIBLE READINGS. 



THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 

. "As the Father hath loved me, so have I 
loved you" John xv. 9. 

. "Greater love hath no man than this, that 
a man lay down his life for \\\s friends " 
John XV. 13. 
Unto him that loved [ loveth J us, and 
wAshed us from our sins in His own 
blood, and hath made us kings and 
priests unto God and His Father ; to 
Him be glory and dominion forever and 
ever. Amen," Rev. i. 5, 6. 
The love of Christ constraineth us : be- 
cause we thus judge, that if one died 
for all, then were all dead/' 2 Cor. v. 14. 

5. "Christ also loved the Church, and gave 

Himself for if," Eph. v. 25. 

6. "Christ also hath loved ?/s, and hath given 

Himself for us" Eph. v. 2. 

7. "The Son of God, who loved me, and gave 

Himself for me," Gal. ii. 20. 

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4. 



THINGS WHICH GOD ' 
' HATH PREPARED. 

1. Preparations of Providence. — Proverbs 

viii. 27; Psalm Ixxiv. 16 ; Ps. cxlvii. 8; 
Ps. Ixv. 9 ; Ps. Ixviii. 10. 

2. Preparations in Grace. — Luke ii. 30, 31: 

Heb, X. 5; Matt. xxii. 4. 

3. Preparations in Glory. — Matt. xxv. 34 ; 

Heb. xi. 16; Revelation xxi. and xxii; 
John xiv. 2 ; Psalm xxiii. 6 ; Jonah iv. 
6, 7, 8; Ps. ix. 7 ; Ps. vii. 13 ; Proverbs 
xix. 29. 

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WHOSOEVER. 

1. Condemnatio7i. — John viii. 34; Rom. ii. 1 ; 

James ii. 10; 1 John i. 23; 1 John iii. 4; 
1 John iii. 10; 2 John 9. 

2. Salvatio7i. — John iii. 16; Jehn iv. 14; Luke 

xii. 8; Acts x. 43; Rom. x. 11; 1 John 
V. 1 ; Rev. xxii. 17; John xiv, 13. 

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THE SAVING POWER OF CHRIST. 

God oiir Salvation.— Issiiah xii. 2; Exodus xv. 1, 2, 11; Isa. Ixiii. 1; Heb. vii. 25; Hosea ii. 16, 20; 

Isaiah Ixii. 4. 
Nearness of Access.— John xv. 15; Rom. viii. 
Deliverance. — Rom. xi. 26; Joel ii. 32. 

Exhortation.— 1 Cor. xvi. 1^; Heb. iv. 13, 16; Heb. ii. 18 ; Num. xiii. 27, 2^. 
Ood's Will Specified.— Ezek. xxxiv. 25; Luke x. 19 ; 1 John i. 8 ; Rom. viii. 32 ; Ps. cxvi. 7, 8, 9 ; 

2 Tim. iv. 18 ; Jude 24, 25. 
Point of Service.— Ex. iii. 10; Ex. iv. 10, 14; Josh. i. 5, 9; Isa. vi 5; Jer. i. 6, 19. 
Dark Hours.— Ex. iii. 7; Isa. xliii. 1, 2 ; Isa Ixi. 1, 2, 3; Ps. xxxiv. 19. 

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OFFENCES THAT CUT OFF THE SOUL. 

1. 77ie uncircumcised Israelite was cut off., Gen. xvii. 14. If Christ is not received as the 
end of self and the way of death to the flesh, that we may be separated unto God, He * 
will not own us, Col. ii. 11 ; Col. iii. 11 ; Rom. ii. 25, 28, 29; Rom. iii. 30; Rom. iv. 9-12; 
1 Cor. vii. 18; Gal. v. 2, 6, vi.l5; Phil. iii. 3; Eph. ii. 11-13. 

8. An Israelite who partook of leaven, or permitted ariy leaven in his house, during the seven 
days'' feast of unleavened bread, ivas cut of, Ex. xii. 15, 19. If we indulge the lusts 
of "the flesh while professing Christ, and this must be determined not by our fancies 
but by the word of the Lord, God will not own us, Rom. vi. 6-12 ; Rom. viii. 6, 13 ; 1 Cor. 
vi. 9-11 ; 3 Cor. vi. 14-18. Matt. vii. 15-21; Gal. vi. 7, 8; Heb. xii. 14; 1 Pet. i. 14-16. 

3. An Israelite who did not keep the passover ivas cut off'. Num. ix. 13. If we lightly es- 

teem the blood of Christ, or trust in anything else for salvation, God will not own us. 
Gen. iv. 3-5; Ex. xii. 13; Lev. xvii. 11; Matt. xxvi. 28; Rom. iii. 24, 25; Rom. v. 9; 

1 Cor. V. 7; Eph. i. 7; Col. i. 12-14; 1 Pet i. 18, 19; 1 John. i. 7; Rev. v. 9. 

4. An Israelite loho did not afflict his soul on the day of atonement was cut off. Lev. xxiii. 

» 27-29. If we have no sense of the evil of sin which cost the sacrifice of Christ, or if we 

are not humbled in view of our personal unworthiness, God will not own us, 
'' Matthew xxvii. 46; Luke xii. 50; John xii. 24-33 ; Romans viii. 3, 32; ICor. xi. 26; 

2 Cor. V. 21; Gal. ii. 20,21i iii. 13; Heb. ix. 26; 1 Pet. ii.24; iii. 18; Rev. iii. 15, 16. 

6. An Israelite who did any work on th". Sahhctth was cut off, Ex. xxxi. 14; Num. xv. 32-36. 
If we seek to add our own works to the finished work of Christ in order to obtain rest 
for the disquieted conscience, and the rest of heaven hereafter, God will not owmus. 
Matt. xi. 28; Luke vii. 50; John v. 24; Acts xvi. 31; Rom. iii. 20; Rom. iv. 5; xi. 6; 
Gal. ii. 16; Gal. iii. 10; Eph. ii. 8, 9: Col. ii 10; Titus iii. 4-6; Heb. iv. 3. 

6. An Israelite who failed to receive the ivater of separation was cut off. Num. xix. 13, 20. If 

we are not cleansed from the defilement contracted in our journey through the world, 
BO that we can walk in fellowship with Christ, God will not own us, John xiii. 8-10; 
John XV. 3; John xix. 34, 35 ; Acts xi. 23 ; Rom. vii. 4-6; Eph. v. 25-27; Col. ii. 6; 
1 Thess. iv. 1 ; Heb. ix. 24; 1 John i. 3-7; 1 John ii. 6; Rev. i. 5, 6. 

7. An Israelite who made anything like the holy oil, or put it upon a stranger, or used it for his 

own gratification, was cut off. Ex xxx. 33, 38. If we deny or insult the Holy Ghost, or 
desire His gifts to please and promote self, God will not own us. Matt. xii. 31, 32; 
Acts V. 3-10 ; Acts ix. 18-23 ; Rom. viii. 9 ; 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17 ; 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20 ; Gal. v. 16, 17 ; 
Eph. ii. 22; Eph. iv.30; 1 Thess. v. 19. 

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114 BIBLE READINGS. 

PEACE. 

1.' Picture of Peace. -Isa. xiv. 7. 

2. Comes from God. — Job xxii. 21 ; Psalm Ixxxv. 8; Ps. cxix. 165. 

3. Peace through Christ. — John xiv. 27; John xvi. 38. 

4. Peace by Faith. — Rom. v. 1: Luke viii. 50; Isa. xxvi. 3, 4. 
6. No Peace for the Wicked. — Isa. Ivii, 91. 

6. Peace always Available. — Isa. liv. 10. 

7. Bendiction.- Phil. iv. 6, 7. H. B. C. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S WALK. 

1. God's Comrtiands. — Ezek. xx. 19; Jer. vii. 23; Jer. vi. 16. 

2. How to Walk. — Epb. v. 8; Rom. vi. 4; Romans xiii. 13; Eph. v. 15; Col. iv. 5; 1 These. ii.l2; 

CoL i. 10; Eph. iv. 1; Eph. v. 2; Col. ii. 6; Gal. v. 25; 2 Cor. v. 7. 

3. Result of the Walk.— I John i. 7; Gal. v, 16; Rom. viii. 14; Rev. iii. 4, 5; Rev. xxi. 23, 24. 

C. E. D. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

1. His Pei'sonalUy. 

He is described in the w^ord of God as a person, and not as an influenccT John xiv. 16, 
17, 25, 26; XV 26; xvi. 7-15. Acts viii. 29; x. 19; xv. 28. The words he and him 
should always be used, instead of the word i/, when speaking of the Spirit. . 

We are baptized into His name, and He is invoked in prayer, showing that He is a per- 
son as truly as the Father and the Son. Matr. xxviii. 19;2Cor. xiii. 14; Eph. vi. 18; 

Men are said to vex, fo blaspheme, to resist, to grieve, to quench the Spirit, which they 
could not do unless He is a person, Isaiah Ixiii, 10; Matthew xii. 31; Acts vii. 51; 
Ephesians iv. 30; 1 Thessalonians v. 19. 

He does those things for us that can be done only by a person, for it is He who regener- 
ates, quicke s, teaches, reproves, helps and sanctifies the believtr, John iii. 5; vi. 
63; xvi. 8; Rom. viii. 26; 1 Cor. vi. 11. 

Personal acts that could not be performed by an attribute or influence are ascribed to 
Him, as when He is said to know, to reveal, to bestow p wer, to love, to search 
the deep things of God, and to distribute of His manifold gifts ''to every man 
eevera ly as He wili," John xvi. 13, 14; Acts i. 8; Rom. xv. 30; 1 Cor.ii. 10, 11; 
xii. 8-11. 

It is often affirmed in the Bible that the Spirit "said'' and *'spake,'" proving conclusive- 
ly that He is a person. 2 Sam xxiil. 2; Mark xii. 36; Acts i. 16; xiii. 2; xxi. 11 ; 
Acts xxviii. 25; 1 Tim. iv. 1; Heb. iii. 7; Rev. iii. 7; Rev. xiv. 13; Rev xxii. 17. 

The visible manifestations of the Spirit show that He is a person. Matt. iii. 16; 
Luke iii. 21,22; John i. 32; Acts ii. 3, 4. 
9. His divinity. 

He is called God, 2 Sam. xxiii. 23; Isa. vi. 8,9, compared with Acts x viii. 35; 
Jer. xxxi. 31-34, compared with Heb. x. 15; A^ ts v. 3, 4. 

He possesses the perfections of God; as omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, holi- 
ness, eternal existence. Job xxvi. 13; Psalm cxxxix. 7; Romans i. 4; 1 Car. ii. 10; 
Heb. ix. 14. 



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He performs the works of God, Gen. i. 2 ; Ex. xxxi. 3 ; Job xxxiii. 4 ; Psa. civ. 30 ; Isa. xi. S; 

Rom. viii. 11; Uom. xv. 16; 1 Cor. ii. 14; 2 Peter, i. 21; Revelation xi. 11. 
Sin against Him is sin against God, Mark ill. 28, 29; Acts v. 9; Heb. iv. 7-9; Heb. x. 29; 
He exercises the sovereignty and resistless will of God, Num. ix. 26; Num. xxiv. 2; 

Jud. xiv. 6;1 Sam. x. 6; Neh. ix. 20; Isa. xi. 13: Isa. Ixiii. 10, 11, 14; Mic. ii. 7; 

Zech. iv. 6; Luke xii. 11, 12: Actsxiii. 4; Acts xvi. 6, 7; Acts xx. 28; 1 Cor. xii. 11. 
We depend upon Him as upon God, Mark xiii. 11; John iii. 5; John xiv. 26; 

John xvi. 7-14; Acts iv. 31; Acts ix. 31; Acts x. 19, 20; Romans viii. 9-16,26; 

Romans xv. 13; 1 Corinthians iii. 16, 17; 1 John iv. 13. 
We are required to recognise Him as God, Matt, xxviii. 19; Rom. xv. 30; 1 Cor. vi 11; 

2 Corinthians xiii. 14; Ephesians iv. 30; 1 John v. 6-9; Revelation iii. 22. 
8. He is revealed in the Old Testament as filling men^ or coming upon them, hut not as abid- 
ing with them, or dwelling in them. The Old Testament saints, wl ile saved by the Holy 
Ghost through faith in the promised Messiah, were not linked to a risen man at God's 
right hand ; but corporately and dispensationally their place was on the earth, Ex. xxxi. 3 ; 
Num. xi. 25-29 ; N um. xxiv. 2 ; Deut. xxxiv. 9 ; Judges iii. 10 ; Judges vi. 34 ; Judges xiii . 25; 
Judges xiv. 6, 19 ; Judges xv. 14; 1 Sam. x. 6, 10; 1 Sam. xi. 6; 1 Sam. xvi. 13, 14; 
2 Chron. xv. 1; 2 Chron. xx. 14; 2 Chron. xxiv. 20; Mic. iii. 8; Exodus xix. 5, 6; 
Deuteronomy xxxii. 8 ; Isaiah xliii. 9, 10 ; Amos iii. 2. 
4. He is revealed in the New Testament after a new manner and for a new purpose, and hence 
His coming is said to depend upon the finished work of Christ. He is present now in 
the world to gather out a people unto the name of Jesus, to regenerate them, to abide 
with them forever, to dwell in them, to sanctify them, to give them their place and 
portion in the heavens, and to constitute them the body of which the risen Saviour 
on the right hand of the Majesty on high is the living Head. Acts xv. 14; Matt. iii. 11; 
John iii. 5; John vii. 39; John xiv. 16,' 17, 26; John xv. 26; John xvi. 7; Acts xix. 2; 
Rom. V. 5; Rom. viii. 9; 1 Cor. vi. 19; 1 Cor. xii. 13; Eph. ii. 22; Eph. iv. 4; 
Hebrews iii. 1 ; Hebrews x. 34; 1 Peter i. 2; 1 John iv. 17. 
&. The promise of the Comforter ivas fulfilled on the day of our Lord's resurrection, which 
was also the day of His ascension in behalf of His people ; but the promise of the Spirit 
as the power of testimony and service was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, following 
His visible and final ascension to the right hand of God. The same two-fold relation of 
Christ, first secretly to His own, and the openly in connection with them to the world at 
large, runs all through the Scriptures. He comes for His saints, and afterwards ap- 
pears with them. Compare John xx. 22 with Gen. ii. 7 ; John xx 17 with Matt, xxviii. 9; 
Acts i. 8; Acts ii. 1-17 with Joel ii. 23-32. It shows a lack of intelligence for Chris- 
ians to pray for the Spirit as if He were given occasionally, or as if He had taken His de- 
parture; but it is proper to pray for the increased manifestations of His presence and 
power, John xiv. 16, 17;Acts ii. 33; Acts iv. 31; Acts v. 32; Acts vi. 5, 8; Acts vii. 55; 
Acts viii. 17, 29,39; Ac/'s ix. 31; Acts x. 44; Acts xi, 24; Acts xiii. 2, 4; Acts x-^ 8; 
Acts xvi. 6, 7; Acts xix. 6; Acts xx. 28; Acts xxi. 11; Ephesians i. 17; Rev. xxii. 16, 17; 
Malachi iv. 6. 
6b There is a striking analogy between the relations of the Spiritual to the perfect human nature 
of Christ, and His relations to those who are made partakers of the divine nature. 
Christ as a man was born of the Spirit, Matthew, i. 18-20 ; Luke i. 35 ; Hebrews x. 5. 
He was anointed and sealed with the Spirit, Matthew iii. 16; Mark i. 10; Luke iii. 22; 

John i. 32, 33; John vi. 27 ; Acts x. 38. 
He was led by the Spirit, Matthew iv. 1 ; Mark i. 12; Luke iv. 1. 

He acted in the power of the Spirit, Matt. xii. 28; Luke iv. 14, 18; John iii. 34; Act? i. 2. 
He was justified by the Spirit, Romans i. 4; 1 Timothy iii. 16. 
He offered Himself by the Spirit, Hebrews ix. 14. 
He was raised up by the Spirit, Romans viii. 11 ; 1 Peter iii. 18. See also Isaiah xi. 2; 

Rev. iii. 1. So Christians are {a) born of theSpiiit. John iii. 5, 6, 8; Titus iii. 5. 

{b) They are anointed and sealed with the Spirit, 2 Cor. i. 22; 2 Corinthians v. 5; 

Ephesians i. 13; 1 John ii. 27. (c) They are led by the Spirit, Romans viii. 4, 14; 

1 Cor. vi. 19, 20 ; Gal. v. 16-18. {d) They act in the power of the Spirit, John vii. 38, 39; 

Actsi. 8; Romans viii. 26. {e) They are justified by the Spirit, 1 Cor. vi. 11. 

(/) They offer themselves unto God through the Spirit, Rom. xv. 16; 1 Cor. xii. 3-13; 

Galatians iv. 4 6; Gal. v. 25; 1 Peter i. 2, 22. {g) They are raised up by the Spirit^ 

Romans viii. 11. 



116 BIBLE READINGS. 

7. The offices of the Spirit in connection zvith the believer. 

He is the seal. Many think of Him as the Sealer, and are in confusion about the seal ; 

but He Himself is the seal, 2 Corinthians i. 22; Ephesians i. 13. 
He testifies of Christ, and never turns our eyes to the worli done in us, but to the work 

done for us, as the ground of our consolation, John xv. 26; John xvi. 14. 
He teaches in such a way that the humblest believer who is subject to His guidance is in 

no need of human authority, Johnxiv. 20; 1 Corinthians ii. 14; 1 John ii. 27. 
He bears witness by confirming to the heart the truth of God's word, Romans viii.l5, 16; 

Gall tians iv. 6 ; 1 John v. 6. 
He dwells in those whom He has united to a risen Christ, and builds them together for 

an habitation of God, Romans viii. 9; 1 Corinthians vi. 19; Ephesians ii. 22. 
He is the author of revelation, and the bestower of all gifts and graces, 2 Peter [i. 21 ; 

1 Corinthians ii. 10 13; 1 Corinthians xii. 4-11; Galatiaus v. 22, 23. 
He is the Comforter and Helper of the saints, and the power of their acceptable worship, 

John xiv. 16; Rom. viii. 26; Eph. vi. 18; Philippians iii. 3; 1 John iii. 24; Jude 20. 

Believers are urged not to grieve or quench the Spirit, while unbelievers are said 

to resist Him, andtheir sin is demonstrated by His presence on the earth, Eph, iv. 

30 ; 1 Thess. v. 19 ; Acts vii, 51 ; John xvi. 8. May we dwell more upon the amazing 

love of the Spirit, Romans xv. 30. 

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GRACE AND GLORY. 

Jude 17; Psalm cxlv. 11: Heb. xii. 28; James iv. 6; Rom. xvi. 27; Rom. vi. 14; Rom. iv. 16 
2 Cor. xii. 9; Prov. iii. 35; Col. i. 27; 2 Tim. i; Psalm Ixxxiv. 11; Psalm Iv. 18; 1 Peter xi. 3; 
John 1. 3; Psalm i. 23; Psalm xviii. 2; Psalm cxxv. 5; Eph. xi. 5; Col. iii. 17. 

C. C. 



WHAT JESUS IS ABLE TO DO. 

2 Cor. ix; Jude 24; Daniel vi. 20; Romans xi. 23; Job xii. 10; Numbers xiii. 31; 2 Chron. xx. 6; 
Hebrews ii. 18 ; Phil. iii. 21; Hebrews vii; James iv. 12; Hebrews xi. 19; Acts xx. 32; 
Romans xix. 4; Eph. iii. 20 ; 2 Chron. xxv. 9 ; Daniel iii. 17 ; Phil. iv. 19 ; Matthew ix. 28 ; 
Isaiah xlii, 7 ; Isaiah xlii. 16; Isaiah xl. 23; Jer. xxx. 17 ; Jer. xxxiii. 6 ; Ezekiel xxxiv. 16. 

C. C. 



HOW GOD REMEMBEES US. 

Isaiah Mii. 11 ; Isaiah xlix, 10; Matthew xxviii. 20; Ex. xxxiii. 14 ; Isaiah xliv. 21; Deut. xxxiii. 27 
Psalm xxxii. 8; Heb. xiii. 5; Isaiah Ivii. 18 ; Malachiii. 6; Gen. xxvi. 24; Exodus iii. 12 
Psalm xlviii. 14; 1 Cor. i. 9 ; Haggai ii. 4 ; 1 Samuel ii. 9; Luke i. 79; Deuteronomy xxxiii. 12: 
Psalm Ixvi. 9; Isaiah xii. 13 ; Isaiah xii. 10 ; Psalm xxiii. 4; John xi^. 18 ; Genesis xxir. 27 
Joshua i. 9; Isaiah xlvi. 4; Psalm Ixxiii. 23; Deut. xxxi. 6; Gen. xxviii. 15; Isaiah xliii. 5 
Psalm xci, 4. 

C. C. 



GOD'S LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE. 

Deut. xxxii. 9; Rom. viii; 2 Peter i. 4; Psalm xxix; Ex. xix; John xvi. 27; Gal. iv. 7 ; Deut. xxxii: 
Prov. xviii. 10; John xv. 3; Col. ii. 10; 1 John iii. 2 ; Rev. xii. 11. 

C. C. 



BEST IN JESUS. 

Heb. iv; Isaiah liv. 5; Psalm xviii. 1 ; Isaiah xl; Isaiah xii. 10; Lev. xxv; Psalm xxiii. 1 ; Isa. Ixiii 
Psalm xxxvii. 6; Psalm xci. 11; Jonah ii. 9; Isaiah Iviii. 11 ; 1 Thess. iv. 17; Psalm Ixxiii. 23 
Psalm xxiii.^; Heb. x. 23; Ex. xxxiii. 14; Ex. iii. 12; Mark vii. 37; Col. iii. 11; Heb. iv. 9, 
Psalm xxxiv. 9. 

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118 BIBLE STUDIES. 

HOLINESS. 

9 Chron.; Psalm xciii. 5; Isaiah xxiii. 18; Isaiah xxxv. 8; Luke i. 74;^Heb. xii, 14; Heb. xii. 10; 
Lev. XX. 7; Rom. vi. 19; Titus ii. 3; Lev. xxvii. 14; Num. xv. 40. Num. xvi. 5; 1 Tim. ii. 16: 
Ezra viii. 28; Rom. xii. 1, 2; Titus i. 9 ; Deut. vii. 6 ; 1 Thess. i v. 7; 1 Thess. iii. 13 ; 1 Peter i. 16] 
Rev. xxii. 11 ; Deut. xxviii. 9; Ex.xxx. 32; Leviticus xxvii. 32; 2 Cor. vii. 1; Romans vi. ~" 
Ex. xxii. 31. C. C 



WHAT GOD CALLS HIS PEOPLE TO. 

S. Timothy vi. 9; Hebrews iii. 1; 2 Peter i. 3; Rom. vi. 4; 1 Kings ii. 4; Gal. v. 13; 2 Cor. iv. 18; 
Rom. viii. 29; ICor. viii. 15; Eph. ii. 10: 1 Sam. ii. 8; Gen. xvii. 1. 

G. G. 



THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD. 

Heb. iv. 12; Heb. xi. 3; Ps. cxix. 130; Jer. v. 14; Prov. xiii. 13; Psalm cvii. 20; Ezek. xii. 26 ; 
Psalm cxix. 50; 2 Tim. iii. 16; Luke iv. 32; Psalm cxix. 104; Mark xiii. 31. 

G. Q. 



WHAT GOD DELIVERS HIS PEOPLE FROM. 

Job xxxiii. 24; Psalm xl.2; Rom. vi. 14; 2 Sam. xxii. 18; Hosea xiii. 14; Gal. i, 4; Psalm cxvi.8; 
Proverbs vi. 8; Romans vii. 6; 1 John v. 18; Romans viii. 21; Psalm xxxiv. 4; Deut. xiii. 6; 
Isaiah xxxviii. 17. G. G. 



THE WORK OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

John xiv. 26; John xvi. 8; Rom. viii. 26; Eph. iii. 18; Psalm civ. 30; John vi. 63; Micahiii. 8; 
Acts ii. 4; Rev. i. 10. G. G. 



NAMES GIVEN TO BELIEVERS. 

1 John iii. 2; Romans viii. 17; Rev. v. 10; Rev. xvii. 14; 1 Cor. i. 2; Heb. ii. 11; Ephesians v. 8; 
Heb. xi. 13; John xv. 15; Matt. v. 14: John xv. 5; Col. i. 1; Matt. v. 13; Revelation xxi. 9; 
1 Thess. V. 5; Isaiah xliii. 10; Rom. i. 7; S. of Sol. v. 2. 

G. G. 



ADOPTION. 

Kpheaians ii. 1, 3-11; Ezekiel xvi. 5, 6; Ezek. xvi. 6, 9; Jer. iii. 19; John i. 12 ; Eph. iv. 23, 24; 
Eph. V. 29, 30; Rom. viu. 17; 2 Peter i. 4. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 119 

THE SAINT'S REWARD. 

Rev. ii. 10; 2 Tim. ii. 12; Psalm cxxvi. 6; Hebrews xi. 16: John xii. 26; Gal. vi. 9; Luke xxii. 19; 
Fliilippians iii. 14; 1 Cor. xv. 58; Jer. xxxi.l6; Psalmlviii.il; Matt. v. 12; Rev xxi. 7; 
1 Cor. iv. 5; 1 Cor. iii. 8; Matt. xxv.21 ; Rev. xxii. 12. 

G.6. 



CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY. 

Deut. vi. 7; Psalm xl. 9, 10; Psalm 11. 15; Psalm Iv. 14; Psalm Ixiii. 3-6; Psalm cxix. 171, 192; 
Psalm cxlv. 1, 12; Isaiah xliii. 10; Mai. iii. 16, 17; Luke xxiv. 13, 15, 32; Hebrews iii. 13; 
Heb. X. 25; Heb. xiii. 15; James v. 16; Matt. x. 32, 33; Matthew xii. 42; 1 Corinthians i. 5; 
2 Cor. viii. 7; Rom. x. 9, 10. A. P. C. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S STRENGTH. 

2 Cor. xii. 9; Eph. vi. 13; Heb.xi; 27; Ex. xxxiii. 14; Judges vi. 14; Genesis xxviii ; Eph. ii. 10; 
Daniel iii. 17; Romans viii. 31 ; Eph. vi. 14; Isaiah xU. 10; Nehemiah viii. 10; Joshua i. 9; 
Psalm Ixxi. 16; Numbers xxiii. 21 ; Psalm c. 2. 

G. G. 



GOD'S CARE OF HIS PEOPLE. 

Deut. xxxii.9; Isaiahlxii.4; Prov. xv. 8; Eph. i. 4; Num. xxiii. 21 ; Eph. 1.6; Psalm xlv. 13; 
Psalm cxhx. 4; 1 John iv. 17; Hosea ii. 19; Psalm xvi. 3: S. of Sol. vii. 6; Prov. viii. 31; 
Luke xii. 32. G. G. 



WHAT CHRIST HAS DONE. 

John 1.14; Heb. ii. 14; Heb. ix. 14, 26; Hebrews x. 12; 1 Peter iii. 18; Gal. iii. 13; Rev. v. 9; 
Heb. ii. 17; Acts xiii. 39; 1 Cor. vi. 20; Rom. iii. 22; Eph. ii. 19; Luke xii. 32; Heb xii. 28. 

Anon. 



WHAT CHRIST IS DOING. 

John X. 14; 2 Timothv ii. 19; Hebrews iv. 15; Hebrews ii. 18; John x. 3, 4; Acts iii. 26; Heb. i. 3; 
Eph. iv. 8, 11 ; Heb. vii. 25, and ix. 24; Titus ii. 14; John xiv. 3; Rev. v. 12-14. 

Anon. 



WHAT CHRIST WILL DO. 

Matt. xxvi. 64; John vi. 39-44; 1 C )r. xv. 22; John xiv. 3; Matt. xxv. 34; Rev. ii. 17; 2 Tim. iv.8; 
Rev. vii. 14; Rev. vii. 17 ; 2 Tness. i. 7, 8. 

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120 . BIBLE STUDIES. 

WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES. 

John xvi. 8, 11 ; John iii. 5, 6; John xiv. 26; 1 Cor. xii. 8; Rom. v. 5 ; Rom. xv, 13; 2 Cor. iii. IT: 
Rom. xiv. 17; John xvi. 13; 1 John ii. 20; 2 Cor. i. 21,22; 1 John ii. 17, 28. 

Anon. 



PRAYER. 

Isaiah Iv. 6; 1 Tim. ii.8; Ezek. xxxvi. 37; Psahn Ixxxvi. 1; 2 Chron. xxxiii. 12, 13; John xvi. 23; 
Rom. viii. 26; Luke xi. 1-4; 1 John v. 14, 15; Heb. iv. 16; Philippians iv. 6 ; Luke xviii. 1; 
Eph. vi. 18. Anon. 



PRAISE— REJOICE. 

Psalm xxxiii. 1; Psalm clxvii. 1 ; Psalm ciii. 1, 2; Psalm xxxv. 28; 1 Thess. v. 16; Psalm Ixxi. 14; 
Psalm cxlv; Psalm xxxiv. 1, 3; Psalm xcv. 1, 2; Isaiah xn; Luke i. 68, 69; Eph. i. 3; 
Eph. i. 3 ; Psalm xiii. 6 ; also civ; Acts v. 41 ; Acts xvi. 25; Rom. v. 3-5 ; Rom. viii. 35-39. 

Anon. 



ABIDING IN CHRIST. 

Isaiah xxxiii. 17; Phil. i. 21; Psalm xvi. 11; 1 John iv. 8; Psalm xci. 11; Prov. iii. 35; Psahn xlvi. 1 
Col. iii. 3; John xvi. 27; Psalm cxix. 116. John xv. 4; Psalm cxxxv. 20; Psalm xxx. 11 
Psalm Ixxxix. 16; Psalm xli. 29; Deut. x. 21; Isaiah Ixiii. 19; Ephesiansi. 6; Genesis xxix. 35 
Prov. iii. 25; Psalm cxlvii. 1 ; Habak. iii. 18; Psalm xliii. 4; 1 Corinthians iii. 9; John xvi. 22 
Psalm xxxiv. 2; Matt, xxviii. 20; Isaiah xxv. Psalm cxxxviii. 8. 

C. C. 



GOD IS LOVE. 

, V. 2 ; 1 Chron. xxix. 11 ; Psalm xxviii. 7; Psalm vi. 9 ; Phil. iv. 3 ; Isaiah xiv. 22; Hosea xiv. 9 
Rev. xii. 15; 2 Tim. ii. 19; 1 John v. 12; 1 John iv. 7; 2 Cor. xiii. 11; 1 Corinthians xvi. 24 
1 Thessalonian.nii. 12 ; Joshua i. 7; John xii. 26; John xiv. 23 ; Psalm cxxii. 6 ; John xxi. 22 
Mark vii. 37; Psalm xxvii. 14; Psalm Ixxii. 5; Isaiah xlix. 23 ; Psalm xxxvii; S. of Sol. ii. 4 
Psalm Ivi. 3; Rom. viii. 31; Psalm cxvi. 8; 1 John ii. 1 ; Psalm xxv. 10 ; Isaiah Iviii. 11. 

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KEPT. 

Deut. xxxii. 10 ; Psalm 1. 21; Deuteronomy xxxiii. 9; 2 Sam. xxii. 22; Job xxiii. 11; Psalm xvii. 4; 
Psalm xxx. 3; Dan. vii. 28; Matt. xix. 20; Rev. iii. 10; Psalm cxli.3; John xv. 10; 1 Peter i. 5: 
John XV. 20; 2 Sam. xxii. 44; Psalm xxxvii. 34; John xvii. 12; Job xxxi. 34; Acts xx. 20; 
Gal. iii. 23; 2 Tim. iv. 7; Revelation iii 8; 2 Cor. xi. 9; Numbers xxiv. 11; Psalm Ixxxix. 28; 
1 Sam. ii. 9; 1 Sam. xxv. 33; 1 Kings viii. 25: 1 Kin^s iii. 6; Psalm xii. 7; Psalm xxxi. 20. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 121 

CHKIST JESUS A LIVING SAVIOR. 

Rom. vir. 34; Rom. vi. 8, 9: Heb. ix. 24: Heb. vii. 25, 26; Heb. x. 12 1.3; Acts ii. 22-36 • 
Acts V. 30, 31; Rev.i. 17, 18; John xiv.l9; Matt, xxviii. 18,20; Col. iii. 1-4, 



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GOD, THE GIVER. 

Romans vii. 23; 1 John v. 11-13; John iii. 14, 16; 2 Cor. ix. 15; Galatians ii. 20; John x. 27-29; 
Eph. ii. 4-10; Rom. viii. 31, 39; 1 Cor.ui. 21-23; Rom. xi. 29; Num. xxiii. 19. 

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INVITATIONS. 

Luke V. 31 ; Matt. xi. 28 ; John vii. 37 ; Isaiah i. 18 ; Isaiah Iv. 1-3 ; Luke xiv. 17 ; John vi. 37 47 • 
Rev. xxii. 17; Isaiah xlv. 22; Matt. vi. 33; Matt.* vii. 7, 8. 

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ASSURANCES. 

Acts xvi. 31; John v. 24; 1 John i. 7, 9; Isaiah xliv. 22: Isaiah xliii. 1, 2, 25 ; 1 John iii. 1, 2; 
CoL iii. 1-4; Rom. viii. 1 ; Heb, x. 19-23 ; Isaiah xii. 

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TRUST. 



Psahn xxiii. 7; Psalm xxii. 4; Psalm ii. 12; Psalm ix. 10; Psalm v. 11; Psalm cxxv. 1; 1 Tim. vi.l7, 
Prov. xxix. 25; Isaiah xxvi. 3; 2 Kings xviii. 20 ; 2 Tim. i. 25. Anon. 



GOD GIVES TO US ALL. 

Isaiah xlii. 5; Jer. xxxi. 35; Gen. viii. 22; Psalm cxxxvi. 25; Acts xvii. 25; Psalm cxlv. 15, 16; 
James i. 5; Rev. ii. 23; Psalm cxlv. 9, 

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GOD'S DELIVERANCE AND GOD'S CALL. 

1. What God Delivers From.— Acts xxvi. 18; Psalm cxxiv. 7; Rom. vi. 14; Eph. ii. 1; Psalm xl. 2; 

Psalm xxxii. 5; Isaiah Ivii. 20; Heb. ii. 15 ; 1 Thess, i. 10; Gen. xiviii. 16; Prov, xxix. 25; 
1 Tim. vi. 10, 11 ; Psalm liv. 7; Phil. iv. 6. 

2. What God calls to.—l Peter ii. 9, and v. 10; Rom. xii. 1 ; 1 Thess. iv. 7; Gal. v. 13; 1 Cor. i. 9; 

1 Peter i. 4 ; 1 Peter ii. 20 ; 1 Peter v. 10 ; Col. iii. 15 ; Isaiah xliii. 1 ; John x. 3 ; 2 Tim. i. 9 ; 
Gen. xvii. 1 ; 1 Tim. vi. 12. 

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122 BIBLE STUDIES. 

ABIDING IN CHRIST. 

itaiah Ixii. 4; Psalm xlix. 15; John xv. 4; Psalm Ixxi. 3; 1 John iv. 12; Heb. iv. 16; Isaiah xliv. 21 ; 
Psalm xxxii. 7; 1 Sam. xi. 9; Psalm xvi. 5; 3 John 2; 1 Peter i. 5; Heb. ii; 2 Chron. xiv. 11; 
1 Peter i. 5; Exodus xix. 4; Isaiah xli. 13 ; John xvii. 23; Luke xxii. 42; Matt, xxviii. 7; 
Prov. XXX. 5; 1 Cor. iii. 23; Psalm xci. 13; Psalm cxix. 117; Ex. xxxiii. 14; Rom. viii. 17; 
Jude 1; Mai. iii. 6; Eph. v. 20: Psalm xcvii. 1; Psalm xvi. 8. 

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CHRIST JESUS, A SAVIOR TO THE UTTERMOST. 

Phil. iv. 19; Heb. xiii. 8; Heb. vii. 25; 2 Tim. i. 12; Ephesians iii. 20 ; Hebrews ii. 18; Acts xx. 82; 
2 Cor. ix. 8; Jude 24, 25. ' Asoif. 



GRACE. 

John i. 14, 17; Rom. v. 15; 2 Cor. i. 3, 4; 1 Peter v. 10; Matt. xxi. 31 ; Hosea xiii. 9; John viii. 4, 12; 
Eph. ii. 8, 9 ; 2 Tim. i. 9 ; Rom. xi. 6 ; Titus ii. 11, 14 ; Titus iii. 7 ; Rom. iii. 24; Rom. v. 20, 21 ; 
Rom. vi. 1, 2; Rom. vi. 14, 15; Deut. xxi. 8; Luke xv. 12, 24; Heb. iv. 16; 2 Cor ix. 8; 
2 Cor. xii. 9 ; Eph. vi. 24 ; James iv. 6 ; Col. iii. 16; Gal. v. 1-5 ; 2 Peter iii. 18 ; Rev. xxii. 21. 

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PEACE. 



iMdah xiv. 7: Job xxii. 21 ; Job xxxiv. 29; Isaiah ix. 6, 7; John xvi. 33; Eph. ii. 14, 17; Rom. v. 1 ; 
Rom. i. 7 ; Proverbs iii. 17; James iii. 17, 18; Isaiah xxx. 15; Luke vii. 50 ; Heb. xii. 14; 

1 Peter v. 14; Psalm Ixxxv. 8; Isaiah liv. 10; Isaiah xxxii. 17, 18; Phil. iv. 9; Isaiah liv. 13; 
Psalm cxix. 65; Isaiah xxvi. 3, 4: Isaiah xlviii. 18; John xiv. 27; Phil iv. 7; 1 Thess. v. 23; 

2 Thess. iii. 16 Anon. 



CHRISTIAN WORK. 

Matt. xiii. 38; Oal. vi. 10: John iv. 35: Matt. ix. 37; 2 Cor. vi. 1 ; 1 Cor. iii. 9; Matt. xx. 6, 7*, 
Mark vi. 41 ; Mark xiii. 34; Matt. xxv. 14; Eccl. ix. 10 ; John ix. 4 ; 1 Cor. xv. 58; Acts x. 38 ; 
Luke vi. 40; John xvii. 4; Acts ix. 6; Isaiah vi. 8; Psalm cxxvi. 6; John iv. 36; Dan. xii. 8; 
James v. 20; 2 Cor. ix. 8. Anon. 



CHRISTIAN LIVING. 

John xvi. 6, 7; Luke xiv. 26, 27; Luke ix. 23; 2 Tim. i. 12; Gal. ii. 20; 1 John iv. 13; 1 Cor. iii. 16; 
1 Cor. vL19; John xv. 16; Gal. iv. 6-8: 2 Cor. vi. 16; 2 Corinthians v. 7-17; 1 Peter iv. 1-3; 
Col. iii. 7. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 123 

. CONFESSING CHRIST. 

1 OOTinthians xil 3; John ix. 25-33; Acts vii. 52-59; Acts iv. 8-12; Acts viii. 36, 37; Acts xxiv. 14; 
1 Timothy vi. 12; Romans i. 9; John xii. 42, 43; John vii. 13; Mark viii. 35 ; 2 Tim. ii. 12; 
Rom. X. 9, 10; Mark viii. 38; Matt. x. 32, 33; 1 Johnii. 23; 1 John iv. 15. 

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GOD GIVES TO BELIEVERS. 

John Ti. 51 ; Psalm cxix. 130 ; Luke xxi. 15 ; Job xxxv. 10 ; Acts xiii. 34; 2 Corinthians xii. 8, 9; 
1 Tim. vi. 17 ; 1 Cor. xv. 55, 57 ; 2 Tim. iv. 8; Rev. iii. 21. Anon. 



GOD'S WAY. 

Prov. iii. 17 ; Prov. x. 17 ; Prov. xii. 28 ; Isaiah xxxv. 8, 10 ; Psahn xxv. 4, 8, 9, 12 ; Jer. vi. 16; 
Matt. vii. 14; Rer. xxi. 1, 2, 23, 26. Anon, 



MAN'S WAY. 

ProT,xii, 15; Prov. xv. 9; Isaiah lix. 7; Prov. xiv. 12; Psahn cxlvi. 9; Prov. iv. 19; Pror. xiii. 16; 
Prov. ii. 15; Jer. xxiii. 12; Prov. vii. 27. 

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I- 



CONFESSION OF SIN. 



Ptalm ii. 3, andxxxii. 5; Luke xviii. 13; Luke xv. 18; Neh. i. 6, 7; 1 Kings viii. 4; Jer. xiv. 20; 
Judges X. 10; Daniel ix. 8; Psalm Ixxix. 9; Psalm Ii. 2; Psalm xii. 4; Dan. ix. 20. 

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TEMPTATION. 

Matt. vi. 13; 1 Cor. x. 13 ; 2 Peter ii. 9; Luke viii. 13; 1 Tim. vi. 9; James i. 2; 1 Peter i. 6; 
Gkd. vi. 1 ; James i. 13, 14: 1 Peter i. 7 ; James i. 12 ; Rev. iii. 10. 

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THE LORD OUR HELPER. 

Psahn ix. 11; Isaiah xii. 10; Hebrews xiii. 6; Psalm xlvi, 1 ; Psalm Ixxii. 12; Psalm xiii, 6; 
Dent, xxxiii. 29; 2 Chron. xxv. 8 ; 1 Sam. vii. 12 ; Acts xxvi, 22 ; Psalm cxix. 173, 175; 
Matt. XV. 25 ; Psalm cxxiv. 8. 

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124 BIBLE STUDIES. 

THE LORD OUR STRENGTH. 

Psalm xlvi. I; Psalm xxvii. 1; Psalm cxxxviii, 3; Isaiah xxvi. 4; 2 Corinthians xii.9; Isaiah xl. SI ; 
psalm cxix. 28; Isaiah xxvii. 5; Psalm xxviii. 8; ] Sam. xv. 29\ Neli. viii. 10. 

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AFFLICTIONS. 

1. Universal.— : J oh v. 7 ; Job xiv. 1. 

2. From God.— Deut. xxxii. 39; 1 Sam. ii. 6, 7; Job v. 6, 7, 17, 18; Ps. xxxix. 9, 10. • 

3. A means of Blessing.— Deuteronomy viii. 2 ; 2 Chronicles xxxiii. 12, 13; Job v. 17 ; Job xxiii. 10; 

Job xxxvi. 8, 9, 10; Psalm Ixxviii. 34, 35; Psalm xciv. 12, 13; Psalm cxix. 67, 71, 75; 
Prov. iii. 11, 12; Isaiah xxvi. 9; Isaiah xxvii. 7, 9; Isaiah xlviii. 10; Dan. xii. 10; Hosea v. 15; 
Zech. xiii. 9; Rom. v. 3; 1 Cor. xi. 32; 2 Cor. i, 5; 2 Corinthians iv. 17 ; 2 Corinthians xii. 10; 
Phil. i. 12, 13, 14 ; Heb. xii. 10, 11 ; James i. 2, 3, 12 ; 1 Peter i. 7 ; (warnings, Isaiah ix. 13 ; 
Jer. V. 3 ; Amos iv. 6.) 

4. Human sympathy in Afflictions. — Job vi. 14; Psalm xxxv. 13, 14 ; Prov. xvii. 17 ; Rom. xii. 15; 

Phil. iv.l4; Heb. xiii. 3. 

5. Divine Comfort in Afflictions— PsaAm ix. 9, 10; Psalm xxii. 24; Psalm xxxi. 7, 8; Psalm xxiii. 4; 

Psalm Ixvi. 1 ; Psalm iv. 22 ; Psalm Ixxi. 20 ; Psalm cxxviii. 7 ; Isaiah xxv. 4 ; Isaiah xlix. 13; 
Isaiah liv. 7, 8 ; Jer. xvi. l9 ; Matt. v. 4 ; 2 Cor. i. 3, 4. 

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HAVE. 



Mark xi. 22; John iii. 36; John viii. 12; John xiv. 21; John xvii. 13; Acts xxiv. 15; Acts xxiv. 15; 
16; Romans v. 1, 2 ; Romans vi. 22; Rom. viii. 23 ; 1 Cor. vi. 19 ; 2 Cor. v. 1 ; 2 Cor. vii. 1 ; 
2 Cor, ix. 8. J. H. B. 



• STEADFASTNESS. 

1 Peter v. 9 ; Col. ii. 5; Heb. iv. 14 ; 2 Tim. i. 13; Acts ii. 42; 1 Cor. xv. 58; James i. 6; Heb. x. 23; 
Hebrews xiii. 9; Job xi. 13-20; Psalm xliv. 17, 18; Heb. iii. 6; Heb. iii. 14; Mark xiii. 13; 
Rev. iii. 11. Anon. 



JESUS CHRIST, THE SOURCE OF PEACE. 

Col. i. 20; Eph. ii. 14, 17; John xiv. 27 ; Romans v. 1 ; Phi), iv. 7 ; 2 Thess. iii. 16; John xvi, J 
Zech. ix. 10 ; Isaiah ix. 6, 7; Isaiah xxvi. 3. 

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OUR STATE OF NATURE. 

Romans iii. 9-23; Rom. v. 12; Col. ii. 13; Galatians iii. 22; Eph. ii. 1-3; Isaiah Ixiv. 6; Job xiv. 4; 
tsalm h. 5; Gen.vi. 5; Jer. xvii. 9; Eph. iv. 18; Eph. ii. 12. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 125 

JESUS CHRIST, OUR SIN-BEARER. 

John i. 29; Isaiah liii; Rom. iv. 25 ; 2 Cor. v. 17-21 ; 1 Peter ii. 25; Heb. ix. 26-28: Acts xiii. 38, 39; 
Heb. i. 3 ; 1 John iii. 5; Heb. x. 12-14. 

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JESUS CHRIST, OUR SAVIOUR. 

Matt. i. 21 ; Luke xix. 10 ; 1 Tim. i. 15 ; Isaiah Ixiii. 11 ; Heb. ix. 12; Gal. iii. 13; 1 John iv. 14, 16; 
1 Peter i. 18, 19; Rom. iv. 25; Im^h xlv. 21, 22. 

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FORGIVENESS. 

iBaiah i. 18 ; Eph. i. 7 ; CoL i. 14 ; Romans iii. 25 ; Acts v. 31 ; Acts xiii. 38, 39 ; Isaiah xliii. 25 ; 
Isaiah xhv. 22 ; Psalm lxxx\i. 5; Isaiah Iv. 7; Luke vii. 36-50; Micah vii. 18; Ex. xxxiv. 6, 7; 
1 Johni. 9; Mark ii. 5; Psaici xxxij. 1, 2; Psalm ciii. 3, 12. 

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THE CHRISTIAN'S PORTION. 

Peahn xvi. 5 ; Psalm Ixxvii. 26; Romans viii. 17; Psalm cxix. Ill ; Matt. v. 5 ; Psalm xxxvii. 11 ; 
Hebrews i. 14; Prov. iii. 35 ; Matt. xix. 29; Matt. xxv. 34 ; 1 Peter iii. 9 ; 1 Cor. iii. 21, 22; 
Rev. xxi. 7 ; Eph. i. 11 ; Heb. ix. 15; Psalm xxxvii. 18 ; 1 Peter i. 4. 

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GOD'S MERCY. 

Ex. xxxiv, 6 ; Deut. iv. 31 ; 1 Chron. xvi. 34 ; 2 Chron. xxx. 9; Neh. ix. 17, 31 ; Psalm Ixxxvi. 5, 16; 
Psalm ciii. 8, 11, 13, 14; Psalm cxlv. 8, 9; Jer. iii. 12 ; Lam. iii. 22; Dan. ix. 9; Joel ii. 13; 
Jonah iv. 2 ; Micah vii. 18; 2 Cor. i. 3 ; Eph. ii. 4, 7; 2 Peter iii. 9, 15. 

T. C. 



SALVATION IS FROM GOD ONLY. 

Psalm Ixxix. 9 ; Isaiah xxviii. 16 ; Isaiah xhi. 5-7 ; Isaiah xlv. 22 ; Isaiah lix. 16 ; Hosea xiii. 9; 
Luke i. 68, 78; Luke ii. 30-32; John iv. 10; John vi. 38, 39; Eph. ii. 4-8; Hebrews vi. 17, 18 ; 
1 Peter i. 3 ; 1 John v. 11. T. C. 



MAN CANNOT SAYE HIMSELF. 

Job ix. 2, 3; Job xxxv. 7; Psalm cxliii. 2: Isaiah 1. 11; Isaiah Ixiv. 6 ; Acts xiii, 39; Rom. ni. 20 ; 
Rom. iv. 15 ; Rom. ix. 31, 32 ; Gal. ii. 16, 21; Gal. iii. 21 ; Eph, ii. 8, 9 ; Titus iii, 5. 

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126 BIBLE STUDIES. 

ALL HAVE SINNED. 

Gen. viii. 21; Job xiv. 4; Job xv. 14-16 ; Psalm xiv. 2, 3; Psalm li. 6 ; Psalm liii. 2, 3; Psalm Ixli. 9; 
Prov. XX. 9 ; Psalm xxi. 2 ; Eccl. vii. 20 ; Isaiah liii. 6 ; Jer. x. 23 ; Jer. xvii. 9; John iii. 6 ; 
John vi. 44 ; John xv. 5 ; Romans iii. 10, 19, 23 ; Romans vi. 6 ; Romans vii. 18; Rom. viii. 7 
1 Corinthians ii. 14 ; Gal. v. 17 ; Eph. iv. 17, 18, 19, 22 ; Col. i. 21 ; Titus iii. 3 ; 1 John iii. 8 
1 John V. 19. T. C. 



SALVATION IS THROUGH CHRIST. 




THE BELIEVER'S FUTURE. 

Job xix. 26, 27; Psalm xvi. 11 ; Psalm Iviii. 11 ; Isaiah Ixiv. 4; Dan. xii. 2, 3; Matt. v. 8; Matt. vi.20; 
Matt. xiii. 43; Matt. xxii. 30 ; Matt. xxv. 34, 46; Luke xii. 32 ; Luke xiv. 14 ; Luke *xx. 36; 
Luke xxii. 29, 30 ; Luke xxiii. 43 ; John x. 28; John xiii. 36; John xiv. 2, 3, 19; John xvi 22* 
John xvii. 22, 24 ; Rom. vi. 22, 23; Rom. viii. 17-19, 23, 30; 1 Cor. ii. 9, 10; ] Cor. ix* *?6- 

1 Cor. xiii. 9, 10, 12; 1 Cor. xv. 39; 2 Cor. iv. 17, 18; 2 Cor. v. 1; Phil. iii. 21 • Col i. 5; 
Col. iii. 4; 1 Thess. iv. 17, 18; 2 Thess. i. 7, 10; 2 Thess. ii. 14 ; 2 Tim. ii. 10; 2 Tim. *iv. 8; 
Heb. iv. 9; Heb. x. 34, 35; Heb. xi. 10, 16,35; 1 Peter i. 3,4, 13; 1 Peter iii. 9; 1 Peter v*. 4,10; 

2 Peter iii. 13; 1 John ii. 17; 1 John iii. 2; Rev. iii. 5, 12, 21 ; Rev. vii. 9, 13-17; Rev. xx. 4; 
Rev. xxi. 1-5; Rev. xxii. 5. 

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MAFS EXCUSES FOR NOT OBEYING GOD. 

1. ''Tempted hy Others."— Gen. iii. 6-13. 

2. " N'ot Responsible for Others.'' — Gen. i v. 8-10. 

3. "Bread and Butter first.— Gen. xxv. 27-34. 

4. "Not Talented."— Ex. iii. 10, 11; Ex. iv. 10-12. 

5. "Too Weak."—l^um. xiii. 25-33. 

6. "Evil that Good may come."—l Sam. xv. 13-22. 

7. "Too Young."— Jer. i. 6-10. 

8. ""Peculiar Case."— Luke xiv. 16-20. 

9. "Hard Case."— Acts ix. 10-16. 

10. "Time enough yet."— Acts xxiv. 24, 25 ; Acts xxvi 28. 

11. Excuses in God's presence. — Matt. xxii. 11, 12. 

12. Excuses as God estimates them.— John xv. 22; Rom. i. 20, 21; 

Rom. ii. 1. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 12T 

THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT. 

1. ''The Flesh,'' weak, frail, mortal.— Gen. vi. 12, 13; Psalm Ixv. 2: Isaiah xl. 5, 6; Matt. xxiv. 22; 

Luke iii. 6; John xvii. 2. 

2. "I'he Flesh," standing for Human Nature. — 

(a) As sinless, John i. 14; John vi. 51; Rom. viii. 3; 1 Tim. iii. 16. 

(b) As sinful, Rom. vii. 18; 1 Cor. iii. 3. 

(c) As contrasted with divine relations, John i. 14 ; Rom. i. 3; Rom. ix. 3 ; John i. 13; 

Eph. vi. 5 ; Phil. iii. 4. 

3. ''The Flesh'' Alienation from G^od.— Eph. ii. 12 ; Rom. vii. 14, 18, 25; Rom. viii. 1-13; Gal. v. 16-24, 

Eph. ii. 3. 

4. ''The Spirit."—! Thess. v. 23; Heb. ii. 12 ; 2 Cor. vii. 1, 34 ; Eph. iv. 23; Matt. xv. 18, 19; 

Matt. xii. 33, 35. 

5. The Transition through Christ.— GoX. v. 24; Gal. vi. 14; Eph. ii. 1-4; Rom. viii. 3; Rom. vi. 6; 

Col. ii. 11-13. 

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FAITH IN EXERCISE. 

Living, Gal. ii. 20. Obeying, Rom. xvi. 26. Walking, 2 Cor. v. 7. Working, 1 Thess. i. 3. Prajdng; 
James V. 15. Enduring, 1 Peter i. 7; Fighting, ITim. vi. 12. 

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SEVEN THINGS OPENED. 

The eyes, Isaiah xlii. 7. The ears, Isaiah 1. 5. Tlie heart, Acts xvi. 14. The mouth, Psalm Ii. 15» 
The Scriptures, Luke xxiv. 32. The understanding, Luke xxiv. 45. The door for service- 
1 Cor. xvi. 9. 

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CONSCIENCE. 

1. Exists in A ZZ.— Rom. ii. 14; 2 Cor. iv. 2. 

2. May he Perverted and become Misleading.— 1 Cot. viii. 7; 1 Tim, iv. 2; Titus i. 15; John xvi. 2 ; 

Acts xxvi. 9. 

3. May le Aiuakened from Apathy.— G^n. xhi. 21; Ex. ix. 27. 

4. Happiness can exist only with a good Conscience.— Acts xxiv. 16; 1 Tim. i. 19; Heb. xiii. 18; 

1 Peter iii. 16; 2 Cor. i. 12. 

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THE CRIES OF JESUS. 

John vii. 28; John vii. 37 ; John xi. 43 ; John xii. 44-50; Matthew xxvii. 46; Matthew xxvii. 50; 
1 Thess. iv. 16. 

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128 



BIBLE STUDIES. 



GLORY. 

1. Glory belongs to God. — Psalm xcvi. 8; Isaiah xiii. 8; Isaiah xlviii. 11; Ezekiel xxxix. 21; 

Matt. vi. 13; Matt. xvi. 27. 
Material Glory, Ex. xxiv. 16, 17 ; Num. xv. 10; Lev. ix. 23, 24 ; 1 Kings viii. 11 ; Acts vii. 65; 

Acts ix. 3; Luke ii. 9; Num. xiv. 21; Isaiah xxxv. 2; Isaiah xi. 5; Isaiah ix. 1, 2, 7, 13; 

Dan. xi. 16, 41, 45 ; Heb. ii. 14; Rev. xxi. 11. 
Spiritual Glory, Ex. xxxiii. 18, 19 ; Rom. ix. 22, 23 ; Eph. i. 12-14. His Holiness, Ex. xv. 11. 

His Power, 2 Thess. i. 9. His name, Deut. xxviii. 58; Neh. ix. 5; Psalm Ixxii. 19. 

His Voice, Isaiah xxx. 30. His Arm, Isaiah Ixiii. 12. His Work, Psalm cxi. 3. His 

Kingdom, Psalm cxiv. 11. His Reign, Isaiah xxiv. 23. His Rest, Isaiah xi. 10. Christ 

"is the manifestation of this glory, Ileb. i. 3 ; 2 Cor. iv. 4 ; John ii. 11 ; John xi. 40. 

2. The God of Glory. — Psalm xxix. 3; Acts viii. 2; James ii. 1; 1 Peter iv. 14; Psalm xxiv. 9, 10; 

1 Sam. ii. 8; Jer. xiv. 21 ; 1 Tim. i. 11; 2 Cor. iv. 6; Col. i. 27; Eph. i. 18; Col. i. 2; Jude 24; 
Titus ii. 13. 

3. Believers are Created for God's GZor?/.— Isaiah xliii. 7; Rom. ix. 23; 2 Thess. ii. 14 ; 1 Peter v. lOJ 

Isaiah Ixiii. 14 ; John xvii. 10 ; 2 Thessalonians i. 12; John xxi. 19 ; 1 Peter i. 8; 1 Peter i. 7; 
1 Cor. XV. 43; John xvii. 24; 1 Peter v. 1; Heb. ii. 10. 

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AMUSEMENTS. 

1. Warnings against Wrong Amusements.— J oh xxi. 11-13 ; 1 Cor. xv. 33 ; Proverbs xiv. 13 ; 

Prov. xxi. 17; 2 Peter ii. 13; Eccles. xi. 9; Psalm i. 1; Psalm cxix. 115; Proverbs i. 10 ; 
Prov. iv. 14 ; Prov. xxix. 3 ; 2 Peter iii. 17. 

2. Right Pleasures.— Frov. xv. 13; Prov. xvii. 22; Luke xv. 23, 24; 1 Thess. v. 16; John xvi. 33* 

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DEAD TO- Sm. 

PUT OFF— 
Pride — Jer. xiii. 15. 
Passion— Col. iii. 8. 
Covetousness — Heb. xiii. 5. 
Contention — Gen. xiii. 8. 
Murmuring— 1 Cor. x. 10. 
Melancholy — Psalm xiii. 11. 
Vanity— Eccl. ii. 1, 2. 
Uncleanness — Gal. v. 19. 
Drunkenness — Luke xxi. 34. 
Deceitfuhiess — Col. iii. 9. 
Hatred — Lev. xix. 19. 
Hypocrisy— Luke xii. 1. 
Bad Discourse — Eph. iv. 29. 
Bad company — Psalm cxix. 115. 
Sleep— 1 Thess. v. 6. 
Slothfulness — Rom. xii, 11. 
Folly — Psalm Ixxv. 4. 
Fear— Gen. xv. 1. 
Self— Matt. xvi. 24. 



LIVING TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

PUT ON— 

Humilit}'- 1 Peter v. 5. 
Meekness — 1 Peter iii. 4. 
Contentment — Heb. xiii. 5. 
Peaceableness — James iii. 17. 
Patience — Luke xxi. 19. 
Cheerfulness — Psaim xxxvii. 4. 
Seriousness — 1 Peter iv. 7 
Chastity— 1 Thess. iv. 4. 
Temperance — 2 Peter i. 0. 
Honesty — 1 Peter ii. 12. 
Love — John xv. 12. 
Sincerity — Eph. iv. 24. 
Good discourse — Eph. iv. 29. 
Good company — Psalm cxix. 63. 
Watchfulness — 1 Thess. v. 6. 
Diliofence — 2 Peter iii. 14. 
Prudence— Prov. xiv. 8. 
Hope— 1 Peter i. 13. 
Jesus Christ — Rom. xiii. 14. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 129 

A DEDICATION. 

I take God the Father to be my God— 1 Thess. i. 9. 
I take God the Son to be my Saviour — Acts v. 31. 
I take God the Holy Ghost to be my Sanctifier— 1 Peter i. 2. 
I take the Word of God to be my rule — 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. 
I take the people of God to be my people — Ruth i. 16, 17. 
I likewise dedicate my whole self to the Lord — Rom. xiv. 7, 8. 
And t do this deliberately — Joshua xxiv. 15. Sincerely — 2 Cor. i. 12. 
Freely -Psalm ex. 3. And forever— Rom. viii. 35, 39. 

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REMEDIES FOR SPIRITUAL MALADIES. 

Psalm xxiv. 1 ; Ps. xxxv. 28; Psalm lxx.4; Psalm Ixxi. 8; Psalm Ixxi. 15 ; Psalm Ixxi. 24; Psalm Iii. 9; 
Psalm xliv. 9; Prov. xxiii. 17; Ps. cxix. 97. 

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KINGDOM OF GOD— KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 

To be sought /or— Matt. vi. 33; Lukexii. 21; Matt. vi. 9, 10; Luke xi.2. 

Its Nature— John xviii. 36; Luke xvii. 21 ; 1 Cor. iv. 20 ; Luke xviii. 29, 30; Rom. xiv. 17. ' 

Hidden to Some — Matt. xiii. 11 ; Mark iv. 11 ; Luke viii. 10. 

Its apjyroach—Luke xvii. 20 ; Matt. xxiv. 14; Luke xix. 11 ; Luke xxii. 16, 18; Matthew xxvi. 29; 

Mark xiv. 25 ; Matt. xxi. 31. 
Who Enter ?—M.3itt. vii, 21 ; Matt. v. 19, 20 ; Matt. xix. 24; Gal. v. 19, 21; Eph. x. 5 ; 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10; 

James ii. 5 ; Matt. v. 3, 10; Luke x. 20; Mark x. 14, 15; Acts xiv. 22; Matt. xvi. 10. 
Siimlitudes — Matt. xiii. xviii, xx. xxii. xxv; Mark iv; Luke xiii. xix., etc. 
War7iings—UdXt. xxi. 43 ; Luke xiii. 28, 29 ; Matt. viii. 11, 12 ; Luke ix. 62 ; Matt. xxi. 31, 32 ; 

Matt, xviii. 1-4; John iii. 3, 5. 
Eo:hortation—l Thess. ii. 11, 12; 2 Peter i. 10, 11, Heb. x ii. 28. 

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PAUL'S SEVEN WISHES IN PHILIPPIANS. 

To Know Him, chap. iii. 10. 

To Win Him, chap. iii. 8. 

To Magnify Him, chap. i. 20. 

To be found in Him. chap, iii, 9. 

To be Conformed unt^o His death, chap. iii. 10. 

To be with Him, chap. i. 23; 

To Rejoice in His day, chap. ii. 16. 

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130 BIBLE STUDIES. 

GOD\S ATTRIBUTES. 

An impressive presentation of these attributes can be made from the 145tli Psalm, where they are 
all mentioned in connection with the word ** ALL." Each person should have a Bible, and 
the appropriate passage should be read in concert at the opening of each attribute, followed 
by explanations and illustrations. 

1. Omnipresence^ (v. 18,) The Lord is nigh unto ALL, &c., [Present everywhere.] 

2. Omniscience, (v. 15,) The eyes of ALL, &c., [Knowing all things.] 

3. Omnipresence, (v. 10, Having all power,) ALL thy works shall praise Thee. 

4. Eternity, (v. 13,) Thy dominion endureth throughout ALL generations [hving always.] 

5. Benevolence^ (v. 9,) The Lord is good to ALL, [Perfect goodness and kindness.] 

6. Holiness, (v. 17,) Holy in ALL His works, [Perfect holiness.] 

7. Mercy, (v. 9,) Tender mercies are over ALL His works, [Perfect mercy.] 

8. Justice, (v. 17,) Righteous in ALL His ways, [always just.] 

9. Truth, (v, 18,) Nigh to ALL that call upon Him in truth. 

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LIGHT IN THE CLOUD. 

Love.— Heb. xii. 6. \ 

Zri^wence. — Phil. li. 5-8. 

Grace.— 1 Cor. xii. 9. \ In the Cloud. 

Hope.- Rom. v. 3-5; Rom. viii. 24, 25. 

Triumph. — Rom. viii. 18. J 

These things will bring " light " into any cloud. 

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INSTANCES OF PRAYER IN DANGER. 

Jacob. —-Gei). xxxii. 9-12, 

Joshua.— Jos. vii. 5-9. 

Gideon.— Judges vi. 13-16. 

Elisha.—2 Kings vi. 17. 

Jehoahaz.—2 Kings xiii. 4. 

Hezekiah.—2 Chron. xxxii. 20, 21. 

Josiah.—2 Kings xxii. 13. 

Asa. — 2 Chron. xiv. 11. 

Jehoshaphat —2 Chron. xx. 4-12. 

David.— Psalm xxxii. 6, 7; Psalm Ivi. 3; Psalm cxvi. S-6. 

Disciples in the ,S^or?n.— Mark iv. 37, &c. 

Peter.— kcis xii. 5.-17. 

Paul and Silas.— Acts xvi. 25-34. 

Paul on his Voyage.— Acts xxvii. 22, Ac. 



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BIBLE STUDIES. 131 

SANCTIFICATION. 

Chneral Definition of Sanctification. 

1. To make clean judicially in God's sight.— Heb ii. 11 ; Heb. x. 14: Heb. ix. 13, 14; Heb. x.29: 

Heb. X. 10; Hob. xiii. 12. 

2. To set apart, or consecrate after purifying. — Eph. v. 26, 27; 2 Tim. ii. 21. 

8. To devote a person already holy to a divine purpose. — John xvii. 17, 19; John xvii. 26; 
John X. 36. 

4. All things are holy that are used for acknowledged sons of God. — 1 Tim. iv. 4, 5. 

5. Character of Christians in Corinth. — What they were, 1 Cor. vi. 9, 11. What they are 

ICor. vi. 11. 

6. Duty to treat with reverence a person or thing sanctified — Matthew vi. 9 i Exodus xxviii. 

1 Peter iii. 15 ; Deut. xxxii, 51. 

7. As a state, or condition of being, the believer is before God in a permanent state of holi- 

ness. — Acts XX. 32; Eph. v. 27; Acts xxvi. 18; 2 Tim. i. 9; 1 Cor. vi. 11 ; Heb. iii. 1; 

2 Cor. vi. 19 ; 1 John i. 7. When the believer discovers and appreciates what he is before 
God, he has " Rest in faith," or " Holiness." 

8. That man does not acquire perfection, is inferred : (a) The exhortations in every epistle. 

(&.) The need of a higli priest to intercede for believers, (c.) Typi cal teaching of the mitre 
of the high priest, id.) Sin-water, under the old dispensation, [e,) Leaven in the meat 
offering for the people. (/.) Experience of saints in all ages, (g.) A deeper knowledge 
of the Scriptures, opening higher states of holiness. 

Row is the Scripture state of Holiness brought about by God so that we can say we are holy ? 

1. By uniting us with what is holy. — Matt, xxiii. 17, 19; 1 Cor. vii. 14; Eph. i. 4; ICor. 1. 30; 

Col. i. 22. 

2. Saints are in a permanent state of sanctification. — 1 John iv. 17. 

3. This permanent state of sanctification before God should be realized by the believer in his 

own experience.— Rom. vi. 19, 22; 1 Thess. iv. 3, 7; 2 Cor. vii. 1 ; 1 Thess. v. 22, 23; 
1 Thess. iii. 12, 13. 

4. The believer should be in life what he is in fact before God. — 1 Cor. v. 7, 8 ; Heb. xii. 14 ; 

1 Peter i. 22, 23 ; Rom. xii. 1 ; 1 Cor. iii. 17, compare with Num. xix. 13, 21 ; Num. v. 3; 
Lev. XV. 31 ; Eph. iv. 24; Col. iii. 1, 4. 

Sancitification is by the Holy S'pirit. , 

1. The Holy Spirit takes charge of the believer in everything. — For education of holiness. 

John iii. 5; 1 Peter i. 2; 1 Cor. vi. 11; Titus iii. 5, 6. General leading of believer by Holy 
Spirit, Rom. viii. 14; Phil. i. 19. 

2. The Holy Spirit specially as an agent.— Eph. iv. 30; 1 Cor. iii. 16. He uses the word of 

truth as a means of sanctification. John xv. 26; John xvi. 13, 14. All things are giren 
by the Holy Spirit, 1 Cor. ii. 12; 1 Cor. i. 30. 

3. The Holy Spirit as the agent uses the word as the means, pointing the believer to finished 

realities which are in Christ, true of the believer.— 1 Corinthians v. 7, 8; Eph. iii. 16, 20; 
GaL V. 24; Gal. ii. 20; 2 Cor. xii. 9; Rom. vi; 1 Cor. vi. 19; Eph. v. 1, 2; 1 John iii. 1, 3; 
Rom. xii. 1; Titus ii. 12, 14; Col. i. 9, 11, 12, 14; John xvii. 17, 19; 2 Cor. iii. 18; John x. 36; 

2 Cor. iv. 16, 18; John xvii. 6, 26; Eph. i. 16, 23; 1 Peter ii. 9; Eph. i. 4, 6. 

The believer's full grovm Sonship.— John 39: Rom. viii. 23; John xiv. 16; John xx. 17; Acts ii. 23; 

John XX. 23; Gal. iv. 4, 7; Eph. i. 5; Heb. ii. 10,13; Gal. iv. 5; Gal. iv. 6; Rom. viii. 15, 23; 

Rom. viii. 15, 16. 
The tvjo iVaiwres.— Nature is the sum of the qualities that belong to a person, or thing, inherently. 

Person is a distinctive thing identified with a nature. 

1. The flesh, Isaiah xl. 6, 7; Rom. viii. 3; John i. 14; Rom. viii. 6, 8. 

2. The flesh and the spirit; their character, works, and fruits, Gal. v. 17, 26; John i. 13; 

Gal. vi. 8; John iii. 6; Rom, viii. 5, 9; 1 John iii. 4, 10; Rom. vii. 18. 

3. The old man and the new; their character and deeds, Eph. iv. 20, 22; Col. iii. 14. 

4. The natural man and the spiritual man, 1 Cor. ii. 12, 14; James iii. 15; 1 Cor. iii. i, 4; 

Jude 19, 

5. The evil man and heart; and the good man and his heart, Matt. xv. 18, 20; Matt. xii. 33, 35; 

6. The flesh and the spirit are like realms, or spheres, in which we live, Galatiai^s v. 16, 18; 

Rom. viii. 4, 8; GaL v. .25. 



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7. Before God the sphere of the flesh has been swept away by the cross, Gal. v. 24; Eph. ii. 1, 6; 

Gal. ii. 20; Col. ii. 11, 13; Gal. vi. 14; 1 Cor. i. 18, 24; Rom. viii. 3; 1 Cor. iv. 30; 
Rom. vi 6. 

8. All the sins of the believer were atoned for, once for all, by Christ, Rom. iii. 23, 26; 

Heb. ix. 25, 26. 

9. Let believers live and walk in the Spirit, and they shall not fulfil the lusts of the fle-sh. 

Such a life is one of holiness, GaL v 25; Col. i. 12, 14; Rom. viii. 4, 8, 12; Col. iii. 1, 5 
Gal. V. 16, 18; Rom. vi. 11, 13. 
Walk as Christ Walked,— Heh. ii. 10 ; Acts iii. 15; Heb. xii. 2; Acts v. 31. The same word is used 
in these four passages. Christ is the princely leader of his people through this world beyond 
to a common heritage, where will be crowned with Him. 

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THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

1. The Holy Spirit Promised— Frov. i. 23; Isaiah xhv. 3; Joel ii. 28; Luke xxiv. 49; John vii. 38, 3^, 

John xiv. 16; xvi. 7; Gal. iii. 14. 

2. The Holy Spirit in Jesus. — Isaiah xi. 2, 3 ; Isaiah xliii. 1 ; Isaiah Ixi. 1 ; Matthew iii. 16 ; 

Matt. iv. 1; Matt. xii. 28; Luke ii. 40; Luke iv. 14; John i. 32; John iii. 34; Acts i. 2; Acts x. 38; 
Heb. ix. 14. 

3. The Holy Spirit Inspiring.— 'Num. xi. 25 ; Num. xxiv. 2, 3 ; Num. xxvi. 29 ; 2 Samuel xxiii. 2; 

Luke xii. 2; 2 Tim. iii. 16; 2 Peter i. 21. 

4. The Holy Spirit in Preaching.— Ezek. xi. 5; Micah iii. 8; Acts iv. 31 ; 1 Cor. ii. 4 ; 2 Cor. vi. 4 ; 

1 Thess. i. 5; 1 Peter i. 12. 

5. The Holy Spirit in Sanctifying.— Ezek. xi. 19; Ezek. xxx. 26; Ezek. xxxix. 29 ; John ih. 3, 5, 6, 8; 

John vi. 63; John vii. 39; Romans v. 5; Romans viii. 2, 13, 26 ; Romans xv. 16; 1 Cor. vi. 11 ; 

2 Thess. ii. 13; Titus iii. 5. 

6. The Holy Spirit Witnessing.— Acts xx. 23; Romans viii. 14-16; Hebrews x. 15; 1 John v. 6, 8; 

Rev. xix. 10. 

7. The Holy Spirit Indwelling.— Isamhlxin. 11; Acts vii. 55; Actsxi. 24; Rom. viii. 9, 11; 1 Cor. iii. 16; 

1 Cor, vi. 19; 1 Cor. xii. 7-13; 2 Cor. i. 22; 1 John iii. 24. 

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SEVEN THINGS TO HOLD FAST. 

1. That Which is Good.—l Thess. v. 1. 

2. The Faithful ^ord.— Titus i. 9. 

3. The Form of Sound Words.— 2 Tim. i. 13. 

4. The Confidence and Rejoicing of the Hope.— Heh. iii. 6. 

5. The Profession of our Faith. — Heb. x. 23. 

6. That we Have, that no Man take our Crown.— Rev. 'Mi. 11. 

7. The Unfaithful, hold Fast and Repent.— Rev. ill 3. 

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THE WORK. 

Matt. xxi. 28; 2 Cor. vi. 1 ; 2 Cor. v. 14; Luke xviii. 27. 
With God.— Matt, xxviii. 20; FuDm. viii. 26: Psalm cxxvi. 6. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 133 

SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS. 

1. Worldly Conflicts,— Ex. xvii. 8-16; Num. xxxi. 1, 2; Josh. x. 1-14: Judges iv. 1-24; 1 Sam. xv. 1 -8. 

2. Spiritual Conflicts.— Eccl. viii. 8; Rom. \ii. 23; Eph. vi. 11, 12 ; 1 Tim. i. 18; 2 Tim. ii. 3. 

3. Worldly Weapons, — Josh, i. 14; Judges xviii. 11; Judges xx. 2; 1 Sam. xiii. 22 ; 1 Sam. xix. 9, 10, 

Job XX. 24. 

4. Spiritual Weapons.— (^e\^. iii. 24; 1 Cor. x. 3, 4; Eph. vi. 13-17; Heb. iv. 12; Rev. i. 16. 

5. The Source of Victory. — Num. xxi. 3; Deut. ii. 33 ; Deuteronomy iii. 2 ; 2 Samuel xxiii 10 .• 

Heb. xi. 32-34. 

6. The Final Victory.— 1 Cor. xv. 24-26, 54-57; Phil. ii. 9-11; Rev. xx. 10-15. 

7. Victors* Songs— Ex. xv. 1-22 ; Judges v. 1-31 ; Psalm xlvi. 1-11 ; Rev. v. 9-14 ; Rev. vii. 9, 10 • 

Rev. xiv. 1-3. 

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SEYP]N '' THEPvEFORES " OF EOMANS. 

1. Therefore Man is without excuse.— Chsi^p, ii. 1. 

2. Therefore not Justified by Work of Laiv.—ChsiX). iii. 20. 

3. Therefore it is of Faith.— Chsip. iv. 16. 

4. Therefore being Justified, vje have Peace.— Cha^-p. v. 1. 

5. Therefore there is no Condeianation. — Chap. viii. 1. 

6. Therefore behold the Goodness and Severity of God. — Chap. xi. 22. 

7. Therefore present your Bodies a Living Sacriflce.—ChsiY). xii. 1. 

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WHAT WE DO BY FAITH. 

We Die.— Rom. vi. 11. 

We Live.— Gsi\. ii. 20. 

We Staiid.- 2 Cot. i.2i. 

We Walk.— 2 Cor. v. 7. 

We Fight.— 1 Tim. vi. 12. 

We Overcome.— 1 John v. 4. 

We Sit with Him.— Rev. iii. 21. 



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DILIGENCE. 

Prov. vi. 6-11 ; Prov. x. 4, 5, 26 ; Prov. xii. 11, 24, 27; Prov. xiii. 4; Prov. xiv. 23; Prov. xv. 29; 
Proverbs xviii. 9 ; Prov. xix. 15, 24 ; Prov. xx. 4, 13 ; Prov. xxi. 17, 25 ; Prov. xxii. 13,19; 
Prov. xxiii. 21 ; Prov. xxiv. 30-34 ; Prov. xxvi. 14, 16 ; Prov. xxviii. 19 ; Eccles. x. 18; 
Isaiah xxxii. 9, 10; Ezekiel xxi. 49; Acts xx. 33-35 ; Ephesia^ns iv. 28 ; 1 Thessalonians iv. 11 ; 
2 Thess. iii. lQ-12; 1 Tim. v. 13 ; Titus iii. 8, 14. 



)3i BIBLE STDDIRS 

WHAT CHRIST IS FOE, US. 

Christ is our Acceptance ; who can question it? Eph. 1. 6. 
Christ is otir Glory ; who can cloud it ?— John xvii. 22. 
Christ is our Hope ; who can disappoint it ? — C .1. i. 27. 
Christ is our Inheritance ; who can alienate it ? — Eph. i. 11. 
Christ is our Joy ; who can diminish it? — John xv. 11. 
Christ is our Justification ; who can dispute it? — Rom. iii. 24. 
Christ is our Life ; who can destroy it ? — Col. iii. 4. 
Christ is our Peace ; who can disturb it?— John xvi. 33. 
Christ is our Redemption; who can touch it? — 1 Cor i. 30. 
Christ is our Righteousness ; who can tarnish it ?— 1 Cor. i. 30. 
Christ is our Sanctification ; who can assail it? — 1 Cor. i. 30. 
Christ is our Wisdom; who can baffle it? — 1 Cor, i. 30. 
" Christ is All in All*'; who can deny it ? — Col. iii. 11. 



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CHILDREN'S DUTIES. 

Genesis xlvi. 28 ; Ex. xviii. 7; Ex. xxi. 15, 17; Lev. xix. 3; Deuteronomy xxvii. 16; 1 Kings ii. 19; 
Prov. i. 8; Prov. x. 1; Prov. xx. 20; Prov. xxviii. 24; Prov. xxx. 17; Mai. i. 6; Matt. xv. 4-6; 
Luke ii. 51; Eph. vi. 1-3; 1 Tim. v. 4: 2 Tim. iii. 2. 

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THE TEACHER'S OFFICE AND WORK. 

1. If the Sabbath-school be a department of the Church, the Sabbath-school teacher should be a 

member of the church. 

2. If the Sabbath-school be a school for the teaching of the Holy Scriptures, the Sabbath-school 

teacher should be a devout Bible student. — Rom. ii. 21. 

3. If the Sabbath-school be designed to bring souls to Christ, and to build up souls in Christy the 

Sabbath-school teacher should be an earnest Christian. 

4. What are some of the duties of a Sunday-school teacher to the pastor ? A holder up of his 

hands. — Ex. xvii. 12. 
ft. To the public services of the church ? A regular attendant. — Heb. x. 26. 

6. To the weekly prayer-m-eeting, and other social and religious services of the church? A regular 

attendant.— Col. iii. 16. Also persuade his class to come. — Rev. xxii. 17. 

7. To the superintendent? Submission and assistance? — Rom. xii. 10; Rom. xiii. 7. 

8. To the secretary and other officers?— Phil. ii. 34. 

9. To the other teachers?— Gal. v. 13; Heb. x. 24. 

10. To the parents of their scholars ? Fellow helpers to the truth. 3 John 8 ; Col. Iv. 5, 6. 

11. To the scholars during the opening, closing, and other general exercises of the school ? — Teachere 

by example.— 1 Cor. xi. 1. 
12 To the scholars during the class-recitation hour ?— 2 Tim. Ii. 15 ; 1 Cor. ix. 19-22. 
13. To the scholars out of school ?— Phil. ii. 15. 

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ALL. 



Komants iii. -2:^: Itjalaii liii 0: 2Peteriii.9: Isaiah liii. «; Romans viil. 82; Matthew vi. 83; 
Komnns viii. 23; Revelation xxi. 7. D A. S. 



CHRISTIAN WORK. 

Hcno it is to be done. 

Dent. xxxi. 6, 8 ; Ezra i 5; Isa. i. 1-3; Psa. x. 17; Psa. xxvii. 14; Psa. li. 10, 12 ; Pea. lv.2S 
Psa. Ixxi. 16; Psalm Ixxiii. 24; Psalm Ixxx. 18; Psalm Ixxxiv. 5,11; Psalm ex. 3 
Psa cxix. 82, 35, 36, 117 ; Psa. cxlv. 14 ; Prov. iil. 25, 26 ; Proverbs iv. 12; Proverbs xvi. 1 
Prov. XX. 24; Song of Sol. i. 4; Song of Sol. iv. 16; Isa. xxvi. 3, 12, 13; Isa xxvii 2, 3 
Isa. XXX. 21; Isa xxxii. 2; Isa. xxxv. 4, 6; Isa. xl. 28-31 ; Isa. xlii. 16; Isa. xliii. 1-3; 
Isa. xliv. 3, 4; Isa xlviii. 17; Isa. 1.4; Isa. liv. 5-10; Isa. Ivii. 15, 16; Jer. xvii. 7, 8 
Jer. xxxii. 39, 40; Hos. xiv. 5 8; Mic. vii. 8, 18, 19; Hag. i. 14; Zech, xii.lO; Mal.iy.2 
Luke xxii. 31, 32; John iv. 10, 14; John vii. 38, 39; John x 10, 27-29; John xv. 1, 4, 5 
John xvii. 11, 12, 15, 20; Rom. vi. 14; Rom. viii. 35, 37-39; Rom. xii. 6; Romans xiv. 4 
Rom xvi 20, 25; 1 Cor. i 7 9; 1 Cor. iii. 5-10 ; 1 Cor. x. 13; 2 Cor. i. 21, 22 ; 2 Cor. iii. 5 
SCor. X. 4, 5; 2 Cor. xii. 8-10: Gal.ii.20; Eph.lii 14, 16, 17,20; Ephesians iv. 15, 16 
Eph vi.10,11; Phil i. 6; Pliil. iv. 12, 13; Col. i. 9-11; Col. ii. 19; 1 Thess. ii. 13,14 
1 Thess. V. 23. 24; 2 Thess. ii. 16, 17 ; 2 Thess iii. 3 ; 2 Timothy i. 12 ; 2 Timothy iv. 17, 18 
Heb. iii. 20, 21 ; 1 Peter i. 5 ; 1 Peter v. 10 ; 1 John iii. John iv. 4 ; Jude 24, 25. 

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SABBATH OBSERVANCE. 

. ii 2, 3: Ex. xvi. 23-30; Ex xx. 8-11 ; Ex. xxx. 14-18; Ex. xxxv. 2; Numbers xv. 82-86; 
Numbers xxviii. 9, 10; Deut. v. 12; Neh. x. 31; Neh. xiii. 15-23; Isaiah Iviii. 13,14; 
Jeremiah xvii. 21, 22, 24, 27; Ezekiel xx. 12, 20, 21 ; Matthew xii. 7, 12; Mark ii. 27,28. 
Luke iv. 16, 31 ; John vii. 23: John xx. 19, 26; Acts xviii. 4; Acts xx. 7; 1 Cor. xvi. 8; 
Revelation i. 9, 10 T. C, 



GOD'S PROVIDENCE. 

Prov. xxviii. 13; Isaiah lix. 12; Isaiah Ixiv. 6; Jer. ii. 35; Jer. iii. 13; Jer, xiv. 7, 20; Lam. i. 20; 
Lam. v. 16; Ezekiel xx. 43; Hosea v. 15; Joel ii. 12, 13; Matthev^ v. 4; Luke xv. 18, 19; 
Acts xix. 18: 2 Cor. vii. 9-11: James iv. 9, 10; 1 John i. 8-10. 

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CHRISTIAN FORBEARANCE. 

Exodus xxiii. 1; Deut. xiii. 12-14; Josh. xxii. 12, 13; 1 Kings xix 10, 18; Psa. xv. 1. 3; Prov. x. 12; 
Prov. xiv. 17; Prov. xvii. 4, 9; Prov. xix. 11; Prov. xxix 20; Matt. v. 22; Matt. vi. 14, 15; 
Matthew vii. 1, 3, 4; Matthew xviii. 15, 21, 22, 35; Luke xvii. 3, 4; John vii. 24; 1 Cor. iv. 5; 
Gal. vi. 1; Eph. iv. 32; Col. iii. 8, 12, 13; James i. 19, 20; James iv. 11, 12: 1 Peter iv. 3 

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136 * BIBLE STUDIES. 

THE FRUITS OF FAITH. 

Luke vii. 38, 42, 43; Acts viii. 39; Acts xv. 9; Romans viii. 25; Romans xii. 12; Romans xv. 13; 
2 Cor. iv. 12; Gal. v. 6; 1 Thess. i. 3; 2 Thess. iii. 3; Heb. vi. 18, 19; Hebrews xi. 8, 17, 24; 
James ii. 18, 21, 22; 1 Peter ii. 7; 1 John iii. 3. 

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THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. 

John iv. 14; John xvi. 8; Acts vi. 10; Romans viii. 9, 15, 16: 1 Corinthians ii. 12; 2 Cor. iii. 17; 
Gal. v. 17, 22, 23 : Ephesians iv. 30 ; Ephesians v. 9; 1 Timothy i. 7 ; 1 John iv. 4. 

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THE DANGER OF UNBELIEF. 

Genesis xix. 14; Exodus ix. 20, 21; Numbers xiv. 11, 12; Deut. xxxii. 20; 2 Kings vii. 2, 17 
Psa. Ixxviii. 21, 22; Matt. xi. 21, 23; Matthew xiii. 58; Matthew xiv. 30, 31 ; Mark xvi. 14 
Luke i.20; John vii. 24; John xii. 48; John xv. 5, 6; John xvi. 9; Acts xiii. 41 
Romans xi. 20 ; Romans xiv. 23 ; 2 Thess. ii. 10, 12; Hebrews ii. 3; Hebrews iii. 12, 18, 19; 
Heb. iv. 6; Heb. x. 38, 39; Hebrews xi. 6; Hebrews xii. 25; James i. o, 7; 1 Peter ii. 7, 8 
1 John V. 10, 12; Revelation xxi. 8. 

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WHAT NOT TO TRUST. 

Pea. xxxiii. 16, 17; Psa. xlix. 6, 7, 9; Psa. Iii. 7, 8; Psa. Ix. 11 ; Psa. cxlvi. 3, 4; Prov. xi. 28; 
Prov. xxviii. 26; Isaiah ii. 22; Isaiah xlvii. 10; Jer, iii, 23; Jer. xvii. 5, 6; Jer. xlviii. 7; 
2 Corinthians i. 9: 1 Timothy vi. 17, 

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WHAT TO TRUST. 

Numbers xxiii. 19 ; Joshua xxiii. 14 ; 1 Samuel xiv. 6 ; 1 Samuel xxx. 6 ; 2 Samuel xxii. 3, 31 
2 Sam. xxiii. 5; 2 Chron. xiii. 18; Job xiii. 15; Pea. ix. 10; Psa. xviii. 2, 31; Psa xx 7 
Psa. xxii. 4, 5; Psa. xxviii. 7; Psa. xxxi. i, 19, 24; Psa. xxxii. 10; Psa. xxxvii. 3, 5, 40 
Psa. xl. 4; Psa. Iii. 8; Psa. Iv. 22; Psa. Ivi. 3, 4, 11; Psa. Ivii.l; Psa. lxii.8; Psa. cxii.7 
Psa. cxviii. 8, 9; Psa. cxxv. 1; Prov. iii. 5, 6; Prov. xvi. 3, 9,20; Prov. xviii. 10 
Prov. xxix. 25; Isa. xii. 2; Isa. xxvi. 3, 4; Isa. xxx. 15; Isa. xliii. 2; Isa 1.10; Isa. Ivii.l3 
Jer, xvii. 7, 8; Jer. xxxix. 18; Jer. xlix. 11; Nahum i. 7; Zeph. iii. 12; Matt, vi.25, 32 
Luke i. 45; John xiv. 1; Rom. viii. 31; 2 Cor. i 10; Eph. iii. 20; Phil. iv. 6; ITim. iv.lO; 
Titus i.2; Hebrews vi. 17-19; Hebrews xiii. 5, 6; James i. 17; 1 Peter v. 7. 

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WHAT SHALL I DO WITH CHRIST? 

Col. i. 16; Heb. i. 3; Isaiah xliii. 1 : 1 Timothy ii. 5; 1 John li. 1 ; Mark iii. 35; 2 Peter iii. 18. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 137 

WHAT JESUS IS ABLE TO DO. 

2 Cor. ix. 8; Heb. ii. 18; Jude 24; Heb. vii. 25; Rom. iv. 21 ; Romans xiv. 4; 2 Timothy i. 12; 
Acts XX. 32; Eph. iii. 20: Phil. iii. 21 ; Matthew ix. 28. 

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THE BELIEVER'S CONFIDENCE. 

Phil. i. 6; Jude 24; Romans viii. 39; Phil. iv. 19. 2 Timothy i. 12; 2 Cor. v. 6; 1 Samuel ii. 9; 
1 Peter i. 5 : Hebrews x. 35. 

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COMFOHTS FOR TRAVELERS. 

ProT. XX. 24; P^a. iii. 3; Gen. xxviii. 15; Heb. xiii. 5; Joshua i. 9; Isa. vii. 4; Psa. xci. 10, 11; 
Deut. xxxlii. 25, 27; Psalm xci. 4; Genesis xv. 1. 

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ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. 

1 Cor. i. 18 ; Titus iii. 5 ; John iii. 18, 36 ; Isa. xliii. 1 ; 1 John iii. 14 ; Habak. iii. 18, 19 ; Heb. x. 39 ; 
Gal. iii. 13; John vi. 47; Psa. cvii. 2; John x. 28; Romans viii. 15, 16; 2 Timothy i. 9, 12; 
1 John V. 11-13; 2 Corinthians v, 1. 

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THE WAY OF SALVATION. 

John xiv. 6 ; John iii. 16 ; John xi. 25, 26 ; John vi. 44 ; John xvii. 3 ; John iii. 3, 6 ; John iv 64 ; 
John vi. 35 ; John vi. 54 ; John x. 9, 11 ; John xii. 44, 46 ; 1 John ii. 1, 2 ; 1 Timothy i. 15. 

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GROWTH IN GRACE. 

Prov. iv. 18; Eph. iv. 14, 15; Psalm Ixxxiv. 5, 7; 1 Cor. iii. 18; 2 Peter iii. 18; Phil. iii. 12, 14. 
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COME. 

Isaiah i. 18 ; Luke xix. 5 ; Matt. xi. 28 ; Mark vi. 31 ; Luke xviii. 22 ; Matt. xxv. 34 , Rev. xxii. 17 ; 
Jeremiah i. 5. 

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138 BIBLE STUDIES. 

JOY OF THE LORD. 

pBalm xxxiii. 1 ; pBalm iv. 3, 4; Phil. iii. 1 ; Psalm xx. 5; Rom. v. 2; Pea. xxi. 11 ; Psa. cxlix. 5 
Pealm cxviii. 15 ; Psalm xxi. 6 : Psalm v. 11 ; Psalm xliii. 7 ; Hebrews iii. 8 ; Zech, ix. 9 
Luke ii. 10; John xv. 11 ; John xvi. 20, 22, 25; John xvii. 13; 1 John i. 4; 2 John i. 2 
Isa. xli. 10; 1 Thess. v. 16; Habak iii. 17, Ig; Phil. iv. 4; 2 Cor. vii, 4: Isa. xxxv. 10 
Qal. V. 22; Romans xiv. 17; Romans xv. 13; Peter i. 8, 9. 

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REPENTANCE 

Jeremiah xviii. 7-10; Job xlii. 1-6; James v. 19, 20; Hebrews xii. 15, 17; Matthew xxvii. 3-5 
2 Cor. vii. 9-11 ; Acts V. 31 : Isaiah i. 8-20; Acts xxiv. 25; Mark ix. 13: Acts xvii. 30; 
Markv. 12. Anon. 



THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 

Psalm xxiii. 1, 4; 1 Peter ii. 25; 1 Peter v. 4; Heb. xiii. 20, 21 ; John x. 14; Ezek. xxxv. 11, 18 
2 Timothy ii. 19 ; John x. 27 ; John x. 9 ; Psalm xviii. 1,2; Isaiah Ixv. 11 ; Psa . xxxiv. 10 
Romans viii 28; John x. 3, 16; Psa. xxiii. 3; Prov. viii. 28; Psa. xlviii. 14; John xvi. 18 
John xviii. 11 ; Isaiah liii. 6: Romans v. 8; Epheeians v. 2; Titus ii. 14. 

Anon. 



WHAT THE CHRISTIAN MAY BE. 

2 Timothy ii. 1 ; 2 Timothy ii. 2; 2 Timothy ii. 3: 2 Timothy ii. 6; 2 Timothy ii. 14, 15; 
2 Timothy ii. 21. Anon. 



SEVEN TOGETHERS. 

Epheeians ii. 5; Ephesians ii. 6; 2 Corinthians vi. 1 ; 1 Corinthians iii . 9 ; Romans iii. 17 ; 
Romans iii. 28 ; Romans vi. 5. Anon. 



EXCUSES FOR NOT OBEYING GOD. 

Qeaeeis iii. 6-13; Genesis iv. 8-10; Genesis xxv. 27-34: Exodus iii. 10, 11; Exodus iv. 10-12; 

Num. xiii. 25-33; 1 Samuel xv. 13-22; Jeremiah i. 5-10; Luke xiv. 15-20; Acts ix. 10-16, 
Si'cvses all in vain — 

Speechless, Matt, xxii, 11, 12. 

No Excuse, John xv. 22. 

Inexcusable, Romans i. 20, 21 ; Romans ii. 1 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 139 

NEW YEAR THOUGHTS. 

New Birth.-^John iii. 3. 

New Nature.— (Ufe) 2 Cor. v. 17; 2 Peter i. 4. 

New Bear'.—i&Heciioris) Ezekiel xi. 19. 

New Friends.— John xy. 15; Hebrews xii, 22-24. 

Neiu Name.— IJohn iii. 1 ; Revelation ii 17; Revelation ill. 12. 

New Food.—leaisih Iv. 1, 2; John vi. 48-51 ; Revelation ii. 17. 

New Tongue. — .Mark xvi. 17; Acts ii. 4. 

New /So ?i<7.— Revelation v. 9. 

New HoTne.—Revela. ion xxi. 1-4. 

All things iVei^;,— Revelation xxi. 5. 

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LOST— SAVED. 

You Have Sinned.— Rom. iii. 23. 

Yet God Loves Fow.— Rom. v. 8. 

You May Be Saved.— 1 Tim. i. 15. 

Now.—^ Cor. vi. 2. 

Believe^ and Live.—Jo\m iii. 36. 

Reject^ and You Perish.— Luke xii. 3. 

Row shall we escape., if we neglect so great salvation?— B-eh. Ii. 8. 

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CHUIST A KING. 

1. Christ a Klng.—^nm. xxiv. 17; Psa. xxiv. 7-10; Pea. Ixxxix. 27; Isa. Ixli. 11; Matt, ii, 2 

Matthew xxi. 5 ; Matthew xxv. 34 ; 1 Corinthians ii. 8 ; 1 Timothy vi. 15. 
a. Christ On The Throne.— Tsa. ii. 6; Isaiah Hi. 7; Daniel vii. 13, 14; Eph. i. 17; Rev. iii. 21 

3. ChrisVs Government.— Tssi. xlv. 6, 7 ; Isa. ix. 6, 7; Isa. xi. 5 ; Isa. xxxii. 16 ; Jer. xxiii. 5, 6: 

Zechariah ix. 9 ; Hebrews i. 8, 9. 

4. ChHst Reigns in His C/iwrcA.— Rom. vii. 4; Eph. i. 22, 23; Eph. v. 23, 24, 27; Col. 1.18; 

Revelation i. 13 ; Revelation ii. 1. 

5. ChrisVs Subjects.— Luke xix. 12-27 ; Luke xxii. 29, 30; Matt. xxv. 34, 40 ; Coloesians i. IS 

1 Thessalonians ii. 12; Hebrews xii. 28; Revelation xv. 3. 

6. CJirisVs Reign Universal.— Tss.. ii. 8; Psa. xxii. 27; Psa. Ixxxix. 29; Psa. ex; 1; Dan. ii. 44 

Dan. vii. 27; Mark xii. 36; Luke i. 33; 1 Cor. xv. 25; Phil. ii. 9, 10; Rev. xi. 15 
Revelation xvii; 14. 

7. Christ King Forever.—^ Samuel vii. 16; Psa. Ixxix. 4, 36; Psa. cxxxii. 11; Psa. cxlv. 13 

Daniel ii. 44 ; Daniel viii, 14; 2 Peter i. 11 ; Revelation xi. 15; Revelation xxii. 5 

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EVIDENCES OF SONSHIP. 

Gal. It. 6; Rom, vlii. 15; Matt. vl. 31, 32; Mark xlv. 36; 2 Cor. v. 15; Matt. v. 16. 



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140 BIBLE STUDIES. 

WHO ARE THE BLESSED. 

1. Those Who Trust God.—P8&. ii. 12; Psa. xxxiv. 8; Psa. xl. 4; Psa. Ixxxiv. 12; Jer. xvil. 7; 

2. Those Who Love God's Word.—FBSi.i. 1,2; Psa. cxix. 2; Proverbs viii. 32; Luke xi. 28; 

James i. 25 ; Revelation i. 3 ; Revelation xxii. 7 ; 

3. Those Who Serve God.— Bent, xxviii. 1-6; Psa. xxxiii. 12; Isaiah xxxii. 20; James i. 12; 

Revelation xxii. 14. 

4. Those Whom God Calls.— 'Paa. Ixv. 4; Isaiah li. 2; Eph. i. 3, 4; Titus ii. 13; Rev. xix. 9. 

5. Those Whom God Forgives.— 'Psa. xxxii. 1, 2; Romans iv. 6-8; Rom. vii. 24,25; Gal. iii. 9; 

Revelation xvi. 15. 

6. Those Eternally Accejited.—FroY. x. 7 ; Matt. xxv. 34 ; Rev. xiv. 13; Rev. xix. 9 ; Rev. xx. 6 ; 

1 Thessalonians iv. 17. 

7. The Beatitudes of t/esws.— Matthew v. 3-12; Matthew xi. 6; Luke xii. 37; John xx. 29. 

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CHRISTIAN UNITY. 

1. One God and Fat her. -^MaAachi ii. lO; Matthew vi. 9; Matthew xxlii. 9; 1 Corinthians viii. 6 

Ephesians iv. 6. 

2. One Zorc?.— Jeremiah xxiii. 6; John xiii. 13; Acts x. 36; 1 Cor. viii. 6; Eph. iv. 3; Phil. ii. 11 

1 Timothy vi. 15; Hebrews xiii. 20. 

3. One Saviour.— Isaiah xliii. 11 ; Matthew xviii. 11 ; Acts iv. 12; 1 Tim. i. 15; 1 Timothy ii. 3, 5 

Hebrews ix. 26; Hebrews x. 12, 26; 2 Peter i. 11 ; Jude 25. 

4. One Holy Sjnr it. —Luke xi. 13; John xiv. 26; Acts v. 32; Gal. iv. 6; Ephesians iv. 4, 30. 

5. One Church.— Acts xx. 28; Romans xii. 5; 1 Cor. x. 17; 1 Cor. xi. 13-27; Gal. iii. 27, 28; 

Ephesians i. 23; Ephesians ii. 19-21 ; Ephesians iv. 4; Revelation xxi. 2, 9, 10; 
Revelation xxii. 17- 

6. One Baptism.— Matt. iii. 11 ; Acts i. 5; Acts ii. 1-4; Acts x. 44, 48; Acts xi. 15-17; Eph. iv. 5. 

7. One ffeaven.-Psalmxvi. 11; John xiv. 2, 3; Johnxvii. 24; Romans viii. 17; 1 Cor. ix. 25; 

2 Cor. iv. 17; 2 Cor. v. 1; 2 Tim. iv. 8; Heb.'xi. 10; 1 Peter i. 4 ; 1 Peter v. 4; Rev. ii. 10. 

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COVENANTS. 

1. God^s Covenant.— 'Qen. ix. 8, 9; Gen. xv. 7-18; Gen. xvii. 2-14; Gen. xxviii. 13, 14; Psalm 

Ixxxix. 3, 4; Lukei. 72-75; Acts iii. 25; Gal. iii. 16. 

2. Godkee2)S Covenanf.—'Deut.\i\.9; 1 Kings viii. 23 ; Neh. i. 5; Psalm Ixxxix. 34; Dan.xi. 4. 
3., Mw Covenant,— Isaiah xiii. Q\ Jer. xxxi. 33; Ezek, xi. 19, 20 ; Ezek. xxxvi. 25-28; Heb. 

viii. 10; Heb. ix. 15; Heb. xii, 24. 
4 Covenajit Everlasting.— ^^am. xxiii. 5; Isaiah liv. 10; Jer. xxxii. 40; Jer. xxxiii. 20, 21. 

5. Covenant Broken,— Gew. xvii. 14; Deut. xvii. 2; Ps. Iv. 20 ; Isaiah xxiv. 6; Isaiah xxxiii. 8 

Jer. xi. 10 ; Jer. xiv. 21 ; Ezek. xliv. 7. 

6. (■ovena7its FoThidden.— EiXO&ds xxiii. ^'il\ Exodus xxxiv. 12; Deut. rii. 2-4 ; Prov. ii. 17 

2 Cor. vi. 14, 

7. Covenants Punished.— ^wmhers xxv. 2-4: Deut. xiii. 6^9; Judges ii. 1-4: Judges iii. 6-8 

2 Sam. xxi. 1. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 141 

ANGELS. 

1 Angels and Christ.— 'SL&tt. i. 20: Matt: ii. 13, 19: Matt. iv. 11: Matt. xxvi. 52; Matt, xxviii. 2: 
Luke i. 11-21, 26 ; Luke ii. 10-12; Luke xxii. 43; Acts i. 11. 

2. Angels Subject to Christ.— Msiit. xiii. 41 : Matt. xvi. 27: Matt. xxiv. 31 ; Eph. i. 21 : Col. i. 16; 

Colossiaus ii. 10. 15 ; 2 Thessalonians i. 7 ; 1 Peter iii. 22. 

3. Angels do God's mZ/.— Num. xxii. 22; Psalm ciii. 20, 21; Daniel vii. 10; Matthew vi. 10; 

Matthew xiii. 39. 

4. Angels Show God's TF?7^.— Dan. viii. 16, 17: Daniel ix. 21-23: Daniel x. 11: Daniel xii. 6, 7 

Matthew ii. 13, 20; Luke i. 19, 28; Acts viii. 26: Acts x. 5; Revelation i. 1. 

5. Angels Mimsters of Judgment.—Exodns xii. 23 2 Samuel xxiv. 16: 2 Kings xix. 35; 

Psalm XXXV. 5, 6; Psalm Ixxviii. 49; Acts xii. 23; Revelation xvi. 1. 

6. Angels Ministers of Mernj.—Gen. xix. 1: Gen. xxviii. 12: Gen. xxxii. 1; 1 Kings xix. 5, 7; 

2 Kings vi. 17; Psa. xci. 11, 12: Dan. iii. 25, 28: Daniel vi. 22; Matthew xviii. 10; 
Luke xvi. 22; Acts v. 19, 20; Acts x. 3; Acts xii. 7; Acts xxvii. 23; Hebrews i. 14. 

7. Angels Fallen. —^SLtt Ay 1: Matthew x. 1: Luke xi 15; John xiii. 27; 2 Corinthians xi. 

2 Cor. xiv. 15: Eph. vi. 11, 12 ; 1 Peter v. 8, 9, 2 Peter ii. 4 : Jude 6; Rev. xii. 9. 

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WISDOM. 

1 Kings iv. 29; 1 Chron. xxii. 12; Job xxviii. 12; P aim ii. 6; Psalm xc. 12; Prov. iii. 13; 
Prov. iv. 5-7; Prov. iii 24; Prov. viii. 10,11; Prov. ii 6; Prov. ix. 1; Prov, viii. 12; 
Prov. xvi. 16; Prov. xix. 8; Eccl. vii. 19; Eccl. viii. 1: Eccl. ix. 10; Col. ii. 3; Eccl. ix. 
16; Eccl. X. 10; James iii. 17; Prov. x. 21; Prov. xxiv. 7; Deut. xxxii. 29. 

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REGEISrERATION. 

John iii. 3-12; John i. 12, 13; Gal. iii. 26; Eph. i. 4, 5; James i. 18; 1 Peter i. 23; 1 Joh iii. 1, 
2; 1 John ii. 29; 1 John iii. 9; Rom. viii. 14. 16, 17; Gal. iv. 6, 7; Gal. v. 16 25; 2 Cor. 
V. 17. 

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JUSTIFICATION. 

:ii 

^. , -. ... , -~ai 

1 Acts xiii. 39; Rom. v. 1. 



Heb. ix. 22; Lev. xvii. 11; Ex. xii. 13; Heb. ix. 7-9; Heb. ix. 11, 12; Rom. v. 9; Acts xx. 28: 
1 Peter i. 19 : Col. i. 20; Isaiah liii. 11; Isaiah liv. 17; Jer. xxiii. 6; Eph. ii. 8; Rom. iii. 



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CONSECRATION. 

Luke V. 10, 11; John xxi. 18-22; Acts xx. 18-27; Rom. xii. 1, 2; 1 Cor. ii. 2; 1 Cor. ix. 23-27; 
2 Cor. V. 13-15; Phil, i. 19-21; Col. i. 28,29; Heb. ii 24-27; Heb. xiii, 12-15; 2 Tim. ii. 
1-5; 2 Tim. ii. 19-22. 

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142 BIBLE STUDIES. 

THE COMING OF THE LORD. 

Acts i. 10, 11; John xiv. 2, 3; 1 Thess. iv. 16-18; 1 Cor. i. 7; Phil. lii. 20; Col. ill. 8, 4; Titus 
li. 13; 1 John iii. 2 ; Kev. xxii. 20. 

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NECESSITY OF CONVERSION. 

Rom. viii. 6, 7; 1 Cor. ii. 14; John iii. 3-7; Matt, xviii. 3; Psalm vii. 11, 12; Gal. vi. 16; Ezek. 
xxxiii. 11; Psalm cxix. 59; Jer. xxxi. 18, 19; Isaiah lv.7; Acts iii. 19; Heb. xi. 6 ; John 
iii. 18; Mark xvi. 16; Eph. ii. 4, 5 ; Jer. xxxix. 13. 

Akon. 



GOD'S LEADINGS. 

Matt. vlii. 23; Psalm xxiii; Psalm Ixxviii. 53; Psalm cvi. 9; Psalm evil. 7; Isaiah xl. 11. 

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THE CHRISTIAN'S STATE. 

Rom. viii. 9; Rom. vi. 11; John i. 13 ; John iii. 6; 1 Peter i. 22; 2 Cor. v. 17; Col. lii. 9; 1 
Peter ii. 9; Gal.v. 1; Rom. viii. 1; Rom.v. 1; Gal. ii. 20; John v. 24; John v. 24; 1 Cor. 
XV. 57; Psalm xxii. 29; Psalm cxxi. 5; Psalm cxxi. 3; Col. ii. 12; Gal. ii. 20; Col. ii. 20; 
Rom. vi. 8; Psalm cxliii. 9; Col. iii. 3; Col. iii. 1; Rom. vi. 3; Rom. vi. 5; John xTii. 
19; Heb. ii 11; Rom. viii 17; John xvii.22; Col. ii. 10; Col. iv. 12; Heb. iv. 3; 1 Peter 
iv. 13; Rom. viii. 17. Anon. 



GOD NEAR AT HAND. 

Rom. viii. 1; 2 Cor. i. 20; John xvi. 23; Heb. viii. 8, 10, 11; John xx. 17, 20; Psalm cxix. 161; 
Eph. ii. 13; Gen. xvii. 1. Anon. 



WKA.T HAS BECOME OF THE CHRISTIAN'S SINS. 

Isaiah xliii. 25; 1 Peter ii. 24; Isaiah xxxviii. 17; Micah vii. 19; Rom. iv. 7; Daniel ix. 24; 
Num. xxiii. 21: Rom. iv. 8; Heb. viii. 12; Micah vii. 18; Zec^. iii, 4; Heb. i. 3; H»b. 
ix. 26; Acts x, 43; Psalm ciii. 12; Micah vii. 19; Jer. 1. 20; 1 John i. 7; Isaiah vi. 7. 

R. vr. 



THE ME'S OF JESUS. 

Matt. xi. 28; Matt. xi. 29; John xv. 4; John xxi. 17; John xxl. 22; Matt. xxrl. 40; John 
xvii. 24. Anon. 



BIBLE STUDIES. 143 

WHAT IS GIVEN TO THE BELIEVER, AND TO HIM THAT 

OVERCOMETH. 

Rev. ii. 17; Rev. ii. 28; Rtv. vi. 11 ; Rev. v. 9; Rev. xiv. 3; Rev. ii. 10; Rev. vii, 9; Rev. vii. IT; 
Isaiah Ixi. 10; Pb ilm xviii. 82; Rom. xv. 13; 1 Cor. i. 30; Rev. ii. 26; John xiv. 2; John 
X. 28 ;Rev. iii. 21 ; John vi. 3.5; 1 Cor. xv. 57 ; John xiv. 27. 

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CHRIST OUR ARK. 

1. Description of the Ark.—^^. xxv. 10, 15; Ex. xxxvii. 1-5. 

2. Names of the Ark.—Es.. xxx. 6; Num. vii. 89; Num. x. 33; 1 Sam. iii. 3; 2 Chron. vi. 41; 

Psalm cxxxii. 8. 

3. Place of the Ark.— 'Ex, xxvi. 33: Ex. xl. 20, 21; 2 Sam. vi. IT ; 2 Chron. v. 7-9; Heb. ix. 3 

4; Rev. xi. 19. 

4. Covering of the Ark. — Ex. xxv. 17-21; Ex. xxvi. 34; Ex. xxxvii. 6-9. 

5. Cohtents of The Ark.— Ex. xvi. 32-;34; Ex. xxv. 16, 21; Num. x vii. 10; Dent. xxxi. 26; 1 

Kings viii. 9; 2 Chron. v. 10; Heh. ix. 4. 

6. }ri}'acles by the J./'A'.— Josh. iv. T; Josh. vi. 6-20; 1 Sam. v. 1-4; 1 Sam. vi. 19; 2 Sam. vi. 6, 

T; 1 Chron. XV. 13. 

7. Christ our ^rA;.— Matt. i. 23 ; John i. 14; 1 Tim. iii. 16; 1 John i. 2. 

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CHRIST'S LIFE. 

1. Christ's Birth.— Gen. iii. 15 and Gal. iv. 4; Geu. xvii. T; Gen. xxii. 18 and Gal. iii. 16; Gen. 

xxi. 12 and Heh. xi. lT-19. Gen. xlix. 10 and Luke ii. T; Isaiah vii. 14 and Mai. i. 18; 
Micah V. 2 and Matt. ii. 1. 

2. Christ's Character.— Is&ieLh liii. 2 and Luke ix. 58: Isaiah xlii. 2 and Matt. xii. 15-19; Isaiah 

xl. 11 and Heb. iv. 15; Isaiah liii. 9 and 1 Pettr ii. 22; Psalm Ixix. 9 and John ii. 17. 
8. Christ's Ministry.— Isaii&h ix. 1, 2 and Matt iv. 12-16, 23: Isaiah liii. 2 and Lukeiv. 16-21, 
43; Zech ix. 9 and Matt xxi. 1-5: Haggai ii. T, 9: Mai. iii. 1 and Matt. xxi. 12; John 
ii. 13-16. 

4. Christ Rejected.— Fsalm ixxix. 8: Isaiah liii. 3 and John i. 11 : John vii. 5; Psalm cxviii. 

22 and John xv. 24, 25: Psalm cxviii. 22 and Matt. xxi. 4: Isaiah viii. 14, and Rom. ix. 
32; 1 Peter ii. 8; Zech^ xi. 12 and Matt. xxvi. 15. 

5. Christ Sufering.—'PBalm xxii. 14, 15 and Luke xxii. 42. 44; Isaiah liii. 3 and Heb. iv. 15; 

Isaiah 1. 6 and Mark xiv. 65: Isaiah liii. T and Matt. xx\i. 63: Isaiah liii. 4-6vl2, and 
Matt. XX. 28. 

6. Christ on the Cross.— VBalm xxii. 16 and John xlx. 18; Psalm xxii. 1 and Matt, xxvii. 46; 

Psalm xxii. T, 8 and Matt, xxvii 39-44 ; Psalm Ixix. 21 and Matt, xxvii. 34 ; Psalm xxii. 
18 and Matt, xxvii. .35: Ex. xii. 46 and John xix. .33, 36. 

7. Christ's Death.— l^Sii&li liii. 9 and Matt, xxvii. 5T-60; Psalm xvi. 10 and Acts ii. 31; Psalm 

Ixviii. 18 and Act« i. 9: Psalm ex. 1 and Heb. i. 3: Dan. vii. 14 and Phil. ii. 9, 11. 

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144 BIBLE STUDIES. 

EVERLASTING. 

Isaiah xiv. 17; John iii. 19; Isaiah xxvi. 4; Jer. xxxi. 3; Isaiah ;.xxxv. 10; Isaiah Ix. 20; Rom. 
xvi. 26. Anon. 



LET 



Isaiah Iv. 7; John vii. 37; Eph. iv. 31-32; Matt. v. 16; Col. iii. 15; John xiv. 1; Col. iii. 16; 
Col. iv. 6; Heb. iv. 16; Heb. iv. 14. 

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WALKING IN THE LIGHT. 

Eph. V. 8: John iii. 21 ; Isaiah ii. 5; Psalm cxix. 130; 1 John i. 4; Eph. vi. 11 ; Psalm Ixvi. 
5; Eccles. viii. 12; Psalm xxvii. 1; Matt. v. 16; 1 John ii. 28; 2 Thess. iii. 13: Col. 
iii. 15 ; Rom. \iii. 14: 1 John v. 21; John xii. 35; Isaiah Ix. 20; Gal. iii. 11; 1 Sam. 
ii. 30; Isaiah xxxii. 20; Ex. xxxiii. 14; Col. iii; Deut. xv. 2;2Tim. iv. 2; 1 Peter 
iii. 16; Judges xiv. 15; Gen. xvii. 1; Psalm civ. 34. 

C. C. 



WALKING TOGETHER. 

1 Sam. ii. 9; Amos iii. 3; Gal. v. 16; Gen. xxiv. 27; Phil. iii. 12; Ex. xxxiii. 14; Psalm 
xvii. 5; Jobxxii, 21; Psalm xxxvii. 23: Isaiah xbii; Psalm xxxii. 8; Deut. xxxii. 
12; E:3h. V. 15; Micah vi. 8, Eph. v. 2; Prov. xii. 28; Eph. v. 1; Psalm Ixiii. 8; Deut. 
xix. 9; John xiv. 2; Eph. v. 8; Ex. iii. 12; Psalm xlviii. 14; Jer. xv. 20; Rom. xi. 20; 
Heb. xiii. 5; Psalm v. 8; Judges vi. 16; Prov. iii. 6. 

C.C. 



CONFIDENCE. 

Psalm Ixv. 5; Psalm cxviii. 8; Prov. iii. 26; Prov. xiv. 26: Isaiah xxx. 15; Acts xxviil. 31; 
Psalm xxiii. 4; Eph. iii. 12; Pt*alm cxii. 7; Phil. iii. 3; Rev. i. 17; Heb. iii. 6; Realm 
cxviii. 6; Heb. x. 35: Luke xii. 4; 1 Jobn v. 21; Heb. xi; 1 John iii. 21; Rom. iv. 
20; P."^alm Ivi. 4; Psalm cxviii. 9; Heb. iii. 14; Psalm Ixxxiii. .5, 6; 2 Kines vi. 16; 
1 John ii. 38; Prov. i. 33; 1 John Iii. 9. 

C. C. 



ENDOWMENT OF POWEE. 

Rom. xiii. 1; Micah iii; Psalm xxvii. 14; Jude 20; Ezek. xxxvi. 27; Eph. iii; John v; 
ICor. XV. 43: Ex. xv. 2: Psalm xci. 4; John xv. 16; Isaiah xl. 29; Habak. iii. 19; 
Romans iii. 31 ; 2 .Tim. i; 2Tim. ii 19: 2 Cor. xiii. 4; Psalm xci. 4; Isaiali i. 2; 
Romans xi. 20; Exodus xiv. 4; Psalm xlviii. 14; Matt. xxii. 32; Peaim Ixxxi. 10; 
Psalm Ixxxix; Isaiah xii. 29; 1 Cor. i. 24. 

C. C. 



BIBLE STUDIES. ^ 145 

CONSIDER. 

Eccl©8. vii. 13; Dent. iv. 39; Dent, xxxii. 29: Psalm 1. 22; Heb. li. 3; Heb. x. 24. 

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THE HOLY GHOST. 

Mark i. 8; Ltike xii. 12; Acts v. 32: Acts vi. 3; Acts xix. 2; Rom. xv. 3; 1 Cor. ii. 13; 
Heb. vi. 4; Heb. x. 15: Jude 20; Psalm li. 11 : John xiv. 16; 1 Tbess. iv. 8; Heb. iii 7; 
Titus iii. 5; 2 Tim. i.xiv; 2 Cor. vi 6; 1 Cor. i. 14: John xx. 22; Romans v. 5; 
Eph. iv. 30; Eph. i. 13; 1 Peter i. 12; Hebrews ii. 4: Acts ix. 17; Romans xiv. 17; 
Romans XV. 16: Acts ix. 31 : Acts x. 45: Romans ix 1. 

C. C. 



JOY IN JESUS. 

Isaiah li. 11; Eph. v. 19; Psalm xl. 3; Psalm' xxvii. 7; Psalm xli. 23; Phil. iv. 4; 
Psalm xliii; 2 Tim. ii. 19; Psalm clii. 7; Isaiah Ixv. 14; Psalm xcvi. 1; Psalm xl. 8; 
Psalm xxii. 23; 1 Samnel ii. 1; Habak. iii. 19; Proverbs x; Psalm Ixiii. 3; Psalm c. 4; 
1 These, iv. 17; Job xxxi. 37; Psalm xxii. 

C. C. 



ANOINTING. 

1. Antiquity of Anointing—Gen. xxviii. 18; Ex. xxxi 13; Ex. xxxv. 14: Ex. xxviii. 41; 

Ex XXX 25. 

2. Eoly things Anointed —Exodus xxix. 36; Exodus xxx. 26: Ex. xl. 11 : I-^aiah xxi. 5; 

Ezekie xxviii. 14. 

3 Prophets Anointed.— 1 Kings xix. 16; leaiah Ixi. 1: Luke iv. 16-21; Lnke xxiv 49; 
Acts 1. 4: Acts ii. 1-4. 

4. Priests Anointed.— Ex. xxix. 7; Ex. xxx. 30; Ex. xl. 15; Lev. viii. 12; Psalmcxxxiii.2. 

5. Kings Anointed.— 1 Samxel ix. 16; 1 Sam. xv. 1; 1 Sam. xvi. 1, 12,13; 2 Sam. ii. 7; 

1 Kings i. ?A: Judges ix 8-15. 

6. Christians Anointed.— Fs aim xxiii. 5; 2 Cor. i. 21 ; 1 John ii. 20, 27; Rev. iii. 18. 

7. Christ the Anointed.— Fssilm ii. 2, 3; Psalm xiv. 6. 7: Daniel ix. 2i; Acts iv. 25-27; 

Acts X. 38. 

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QUIETNESS. 

Ex. xiv. 13; Psalm Ivi. 3; Pealm cxviii. 8; Isaiah xxvii. 5; Isaiah xxvi. 12; Isaiah xlix. 9; 
Lamentations iii. 26; Isaiah xxx. 7; Proverbs i. 33; 1 Chron. xxii. 9; Psalm xxui. 2; 
I«aiah xxxii. 17; Isaiah xiv. 3; Acts xxiv. 2; Colossians iii. 15; 2 Chronicles xiv. 11; 
P6almxvi.9; Pealmxxxvii. 7; Isaiah xi. 2; Isaiah Ivii. 2; Isaiah Ixiii. 14; Jer.xl vii. 6; 
Luke X. 5; 1 Pe^er i. 2; Isaiah Iv, 12; Psalm cxix. 165; Rom. viii. 6; 1 Chron.xxii.9; 
Jer. xlvii 6; Psalm xlvi. 10. 

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146 BIBLE STUDIES. 

THE HANDS AND FEET OF JESUS. 

Read Luke xxv. 39, 40. 

The Hands of Jesiis.— (Note— Space will not permit the relercnces iu the Old Testament, 
and biii a portion of the New Testament.) Mark i. 41, Hid cleansing hand. Mark vi. 5, 
Hit^ healing hand. Mark ix. 27, His restoriug hand. Mark x. 16, His receiving hand. 
Matt. ix. 25, His life-giving hand. Matt. xiv. 19, His supplying hand. Mati. xiv. 31, 
His supporting hand. Matt, xvi, 7, His comforting hand. Matt. xx. 34, His sight- 

£iving hand. John xiii. 5, His serviug haiid. John xx. 27, His assuring hand 
uke xxiv. 50, Hi^i hand of blessing. 1 Peter v. 6, His mighty hand. Rev i. 16, His 
su.<tainiug hand. Rev. i. 17, His strengthening hand. 
r?te Feet of Jesi^.— Luke vii. 38, The place of forgiveness; the guilty one finds pardon. 
Luke viii. 35, The place of peace; the restless wanderer finds rest. Luke xvii. 16, 
The. place of confession; the heakd one returns thanks. John xi. 32, The place of 
comfort; the sorrowful one finds help. Luke x 39. The place of instruction; the 
ignorant one learns. Mark vii. 25, The place o!' i^itercession; the burdened one finds 
relief. Matt, xxviii. 9, The place of worship ; ho joyful seeker finds tlae Lord. 

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THE WAY OF HOLINESS. 

Rom. xi. 16; Rom. vi. 11; Isaiah xxx. 21; Gen. xvii. 1; Psalm cxliii. 10; Psalm IxvL 18; 
Psalm xvii. 5; Psalm li. 10; John xiv. 23; John xxi. 22; Eph. i. 6; Mai. ii. 15; 
1 Cor. iii. 16; John xv. 19; Acts xv. 9; 1 Cor.; 2 Sam. xxiv. 14; Rom. vi. 22; Eph. v. 2; 
Gal. VI. 16; Psalmcvii. 9; 1 Cor. ix. 27; Eph. ii. 4; 1 John iv. 19; Romans v. 1; 



Isaiah liv. 7; Eztk. xxxvi. 27. 



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LIFE IN CHEIST. 

Cor. vi. 16; Heb. vii. 25; liom. vi. 11; John xiv. 19; John x. 10; John v. 21; Gal. li; 
Phil. i. 21; John vi. 35; Col. iii. 3; 2 Cor xv. 45; Psalm xxxiv. 9; Isaiah xli. 10; 
Hosea xiii. 9; Gal. iii. 28; John xi 25; Col. iii. 13; Rom, vi. 22; John xiii. 15; 
Deut. xxxiii. 27; Psalm ciii. 4; John x. 28; John xiv. 6; Luke xix. 31; 1 Sam. i. 38; 
Gal. ii. 18; Psalm Ixix. 32. 

C. C. 



OUR PEACE. 

Prov. xviii. 10; Coi. iii. 15; Psalm cxx\'i. 3; 1 Cor. iii. 9; Psalm cxxii. 8; Psalm Ixxxv. 8; 
Psalm xxxvii. 34; Dan. iv. 1; Acts xxiv. 2; Eph. ii. 14; 1 Peter v. 7; John xiv. 27; 
Isaiah xxvi. 3; 1 Cor. vii. 16; Rom. iv. 17; Gai. ii. 30: 12; Ex xxiii. 20; Isaiah xxx. 
15; Ex. xviii. 19; Psalm xxiii. 1: John xv. 16; Col. i. 30; Rom. xv. 33; 1 Thess. v. 
18; Job xxxiv. 29. 

C. C. 



BIBLE STUDIES. 147 

INDWELLING OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

John xiv. 18; Psalm xcii. 10; Psalm cxliii. 11; 1 Cor. vi. 19; Ezek. xxxvi. 2; Gal. v. 2i 
1 Tim. Iv. 14; 1 Cor. iii. 16: 2 Cor. xiii. 14; Isaiah Ixi. 1; Rom, viii. 9; Prov. i. 23 

1 John Iv. 13; 1 Cor. xii. 7; Ezek. xxxvi. 25; Mark x. 27: Eph. v. 18: Rom. viii. 26 
2Cor. vii. 4; John xvi. 22; Geu. xv. 1; Isaiuh xli. 10; Ex. iv. 15; Ezek. xxxvi. 25 

2 Cor vi. 6; Ex. xxxiii. 22; Rom. viii. 2?; Eph. i. 13; Eph. iii. 18. 

C. C. 



REST. 



Jer. xxxi. 25: Deut. xxxiv. 27; 2 Chron. xx. 20; 1 Sam. xvi. 7; Ex. xxxii; Ex. xxxiv 
Deut. viii. 16; Dan. xii. 12; 1 Cor. x. 1; John xvi. 33; 1 Kings xvii. 6; 1 Kings viii. 56 
aChromcles XX. 15; Nehemiah xiii. 31; Jobxi. 18; Isaian Ixvi. 13; Isaiah xlix. 2 
Amos v. 8; Job v. 19; Job v. 21; Psalm Ixxix. 9; Pealm xcvii. 11; Haggai ii. 23 
Micah iv. 12; Job xv. 11; Luke i. 38; Luke i. 37; Isaiah Ixv. 14. 

C. C. 



REST IN GOD. 

Dan. ii. 22; Lukexxiv. 34; Psalm Ixxxvi. 11; Ex. xx. 2; Matt. vi. 34; Psalm xxxvii. 7;" 
2Cor. xiii.ll; Mark v. 36; Eph. ii. 8; Psalm xvi. 17; Psalm Ixxi. 16; 2Cor. v. 7: 
Joshua i. 13; Job xi. 18; Isaiah xxx. 15; Phil. iii. 1; John vi. 5; Matt. vi. 8; 
Isaiah vii. 4; Lamentations iii. 24; Psalm xxxiv. 9; Psalm xxix. 11; Eccles. viii. 12; 
John viii. 32; Galatians iv. 7; James i. 4; Jeremiah vi. 16; Psalm v 11; Isaiah xiv. 3; 
Psalm ciii. 14. 

C. C. 



COME. 

Song of Solomon ii. 12; Dan. iii. 26: Matt. xi. 28: Pt^alm cii. 13; Habak. ii. 3; 2 Cor. vi. 17 
Hebrews iv. 16; Mai. iii. 1; Johnx. 19; Job xiii. 13; 1 Chron. xxix. 14; 1 John v. 20 
Luke xii. 51: John vii. 37; Isaiah xxi. 12; Numbers x. 29; Hosea vi. 1 ; 1 Sam. xx. 21 
John xii. 46; John xvi. 23; -^ Kings v. 8; Matthew xxv. 35; John i. 39; Rev. xxii. 17 
2 Cor. i. 15; Psalm cxix. 41 ; Matt. vi. 10. 

C. C. 



THANKSGIVING. 

Eph. V. 20; 1 Chron. xvi. 7-36; Psalm cxxxvi cxlix., cl.; Ex. xxiii. 14, 16; Deut. xvi. 13 
Dcut. xii. 7; Lev. xxii. 29; Psalm cv. 1; Psalm xcii. 1; Psalm cvii. 21, 22; 1 Tim. ii. 1 
Col. iv. 2; Heb. xiii. 15; 1 Tim. iv. 4; Phil. iv. 6; Col. iii. 15; 1 Thess. v. 18 
Psalm cvi. 1; Psalm c. 4, 5; Psalm !xv. 9-13; Psalm cxlvii. 7-9: 2 Cor. ix. 15 
Col. ii. 6,7; 2 Cor. ii. 14; 1 Thess. i 3; Isaiah Ii. 3: Jer. xxx 18, 19; John iv. 36 
Ppaim Ixxv. 1; 2 Chron. v. 1.^; Neb. xii. 27: Ezra iii. 10, 11; Dan. ii 23; Dan. vi. 10 
Luke li. 36, :38; Mark viii. 6; Matt. xxvi. 27, 28; 1 Cor. L 4; Rom. i. 8; 2 These, ii. 13: 
Acta xxviii. 15; Acts xxvii. 35; 1 Cor. xv. 57; Psalm xxx. 12; Pealm Ixix. 30 
Pfcalm XXXV. 18; Rev. vii. 12. ' 

Anon. 



148 BIBLE STUDIES. 

VICTORY IN CHRIST. 

PhiJ. iv. 13; 2 Cor. ii. 14; 1 Cor. xv. 57; Col. ii. 10; Col. i. 13; Pealm Ixii. 6; Psalm xcii. 12; 
Joshua i. 5; Proverbs iii. 26; Psalm xxiii. 5; Luke xii. 32; Matt. 1. 21; Rom. vi. 14; 
Isaiah xv. 8; 1 John v. 4; 1 Cor. xii. 27 ; 1 Cor. xii. 10; 1 Cor. xv. 55; Gal. i. 4; 
Eph.vi. 10; Eph. vi. 16; Col. iv. 12; Col. iv. 16; Titus 1. 14; 2 Tim. iv. 18; 1 Peter ii. 9; 
2 Peter vii. 11; Psalm xxxvii. 40; Matt, xxviii. 20. 

C. C. 



GOD IN US. 

Romans vi; Isaiah viii. 10; Prov. x. 28; Isaiah ii. 5; 1 John iii. 2; Ex. iv. 12; Ex. xiv. 14; 
Deuteronomy vii. 6; Eph. i. 6; 1 John iv. 12; Daniel iii. 17; John xiv. 19; John xv. 5; 
John xvii. 23; Song of Solomon ii. 16; John xiv. 17; Numbers vi. 24; ICor. iii. 21; 
Psalms xci 10; Psalm cvii. 9; Psalra Iviii. 14; Deut. xxxii. 9; Rom. xii. 5; Col. i. 
27; Matt. v. 14; 1 Sam. ii. 9; Rom. xiv. 7, 

CO. 



PRAYER. 

Proverbs x. 24; Psalm 1. 15; Matthew vii. 7; Matthevi? vii. 11; Mark ix. 23; 1 John v. 14 
Ezekiel xxxvi. 37; John viii. 7; Joshua xxi 45; Eph. iii. 20; John xv. 7: John xv. 16 
John xiv. 14; John xiv. 13; Heb. iv. 16; Mark xi. 24; Num. xi. 23; 2 Chron. xxv 9 
Luke xi. 10; Luke xviii. 1; Psalm cxyi. 1; Psalm cxlv. 19; Isaiah xxxvii. 15 
Jer. xxxiii. 3; Gen. xvii. 3; Gen. xxxii. 28; James v. 16; Heb. xi. 6: Eph. vi. 18. 

C. C. 



ONENESS WITH CHRIST. 

Song of Sol. ii. 16; 1 Cor. vi. 5; Rom. xii. 5; 2 Chron. xiii. 12; 1 John iii. 2; 1 John iv. 19; 
2 Cor. ii. 15; Col. ii. 10; John xiii. 15; Luke xix 13; Psalm xcvi. 1; Leviticus xx. 26; 
Isaiah Iv. 12; 2 Chron. v. 14: 1 John iv. 12; Matthew i. 21; Galatians iv. 7; Isaiah iv. 
7; 2 Chron. xiii. 11; Eph. v. 2; Matt. vi. 33; Isaiah Ixvi, 12; Ezek. xx, 41; Rom. vn. 22; 
Pealm xviii. 1; John xiii. 14; Eph. ii. 10; Eph. i. 6; Heb. viii. 10. 

C C 



CHRIST OUR LIFE. 

John X. 10,6; John xi. 25; John x. 28 ; John xiv. 19; Gal. ii. 20; Col. iii. 3; Col. ill. 4. 

Anon. 



LOVINGKINDNESS. 

Jer. xxxi. 3; Rosea ii. 19, 20; Isaiah Ixiii. 7; Psalm cxliii. 18; Psalm Ixxxix. 31-33; 
Psalm ciii. 1-4 ; Psalm xl, 10, 11 ; Psalm xxxvi. 7-10; Psalm cvii. 43. 

Anon. 



BIBLE STUDIES. 149 

FAITH IN GOD. 

Eph. ii. 5: Pgalm vi. 3; Psalm cxix. 160; Nehemiah iv. 20; Psalm cvi. 1; Job xxii. 25: 
Deur. xxxiii, 27; Heb. vii. 25; Isaiah Iviii. 11; Ex. xviii. 19; Job xxvii. 11; Num. vi. 24 
Psalm xvi. 17; Deut. vii 13; Psalru v. 11; Eph. i. 13; Isaiah xxxviii. 6; 1 Cor. xvi. 24, 
Pealm Ixv. 1; Eph. i, 6; PsaJm xxxi. 23; Eph. v. 15; Psalm cxlvi. 2; Galatians v. 22 
Song of Sol. ii. i; Deut. xxviii. 44; Mark vii. 37; Col. iii. 13; John xiv. 14, 



Psalm xxxiv. 9; Isaiah Ixiii. 9. 



C. C. 



REST OF FAITH. 

Psalm xl. 17; Isaiah liv. 7; Psalm xli. 3; Psalm Ixii. 6; Psalm xlii. 7; Song of So . iv. 16; 
Gen. xxxi. 5; 2 Cor, xii. 10; Isaiah xliv. 21; 1 Tim. ii. 19; Prov. iii. 5; Psalm iv. 7; 
Mark xiv. 3; Isaiah xxxiii. 22; Proverbs iii. 6; Isaiah xli. 10; Ex. xxxiii. l-i; 
Psalm cxxii. 6; Hebrews xii. 2; Psalm xxxiv. 9; Ezekiel xxxiv. 14; 1 John iv. 7; 
Isaiah xxxviii. 5; Psalm xxii. 7; Exodus xxxiii. 14; Romans viii. 29; Psalm ix 2; 
Psalm Ixxxi; Psalm Ixxxiv. 11. 

C.C. 



THE LIFE OF FAITH. 

Isaiah xli, 10; Micah vii. 7; Prov. xx. 24; Exodus xxiii 15; Prov. xli. 28; Psalm Ixi. 4; 
James i; Phil. iv. 19; Jonah ii. 9; Rom. ix; Col. iii. 15; Mati, xv. 28; Mark vii. 37; 
Heb. ii. 4; Matt. iv. 4; Phii. i; Gal. n . 7; Isaiah Ixv, 24; Num. xviii. 20; Mark xi. 22: 
2 Tim. i. 12; Isaiah xli. 10; Rom. x. 17; Gal. ii. 20; 1 Peter ii. 7; Num. xxiii. 19: 



Job xxiii. 10 



C.C. 



CHRIST OUR ALL. 

Dent, xxxiii. 25: Psalm xxxvli: Psalm cxviii; 2 Tim. i. 12; Col. iii. 11; Heb. iv 9; Prov. ii. 6 
Heb. iii. 19; Rev. i^ 25; 1 John v. 12; Psalm Ixxi. 16; Psalm xlviii, 14; Psalm xcvi j 
Prov xvi. 15; Prov. xix. 21; James iv. 6; Psalms cxviii. 6; Job xix. 25; Euh. v. 30 
Heb. vii. 25: Ex. xxxiii. 14; 1 i or. iii. 21; Isaiah xlix; Isaiah lix. 1; Isaiah xl. .29 
Luke i. 46; Acts x. 36; Rom. viii. 35; Jer. iii. 

C, C. 



CONSECRATION. 

Ex. xxxii. 29 J Acta xxiv. 16; Rom. viii. 13: Ps^lm cv. 4; 1 Cor. vi. 19; 1 Cor. xv. 34 
1 Chrr n. xxviii. 9; Rom. xiii. 14 ; Phil. i. 21 ; Psalm xxvi. 2 ; Rom, xii, 1 ; Eph. vi. 11 
Prov. viii. 10 ; Isaiah IxV', 5 ; Luke xvi. 2 ; 1 Sa . ii. 7 ; James v. 16 ; Num. vi. 12 
Micah iv. 13; Ezekiel xliii. 26; Acts v. 29; Luke x. 42; Jer. xiv. 22; Isaiah vi. 8 
Pealm xxxii. 7 ; Psalm cxliii. 9 ; 1 Sam. xv. 22 ; Matt. xxv. 4 ; 1 Chron. xxix. 5. 

C. C. 



150 BIBLE STUDIES. 

GOD'S GIFTS. 

1. The Unspeakahle Gi/t.— Isaiah ix. 6; Isaiah xlii. 6; Isaiah It. 4; John iii. 16; 

Acts iv. 12: Rom. vi. 23 ; 1 John v. 11 ; Rom. v. 15-18. 

2. Christ gave Himself. -John x. 11; Eph. v. 2, 25 : Gal. I. 4 ; Gal. ii. 20 . 1 Tim. ii. 6 ; 

Titus i . 14. 

3. Gifts in the Unspeakable Gift.— Matt, xi. 28; Luke xii. 32; John i. 12; John iv. 10, 14; 

John vi. 27, 31 ; John x. 28; John xiii. 15; John xiv. 27 ; John xvi. 26; John xvii. 8; 
John xvii. 22; John xvi. 16 : Acts ii. 38 ; 2 Cor. v. 5 ; 1 These, iv. 8; 1 John iii. 21 ; 
1 Cor. ii. 12 ; 1 Cor. xii. 4, 11; Romans v. 31; 2 Cor. iv. 6; Eph. i. 17 ; 2 Tim. i. 7; 
Acts V. 31; Eph. ii. 8; 2 Tim. i. 9; 2 Thess. ii. 16; James iv. 6; James i. 5, 17; 
1 John V. 20; Rom. viii. 32; 2 Peter i. 3 ; 2 Peter i, 4; 2 Cor. v. 18; 1 Peier iv. 11; 
Phil, i 29; Rev. ii. 7; Rev. ii. 10; Rev. ii. 17; Rev. ii. 2'<; 2 Tim. iv. 8; 1 Cor. xv. 57; 
Rev, ii. 28— The Morning Star. Rev. vi. 11— White Robes. Rev. xxi. 6— Water of 
Life freely. Rev. xxii. 5 — Light. Rev. xxii. 12--Reward, according to work. 

Anon. 



FROM BONDAGE TO THE LAND OF PROMISE. 

1. Bondage of Israel. 
Ex. i. 14. Sin of Soul. Rom. vii^ 21. 

2. Plagues. 
Pealm cv, 27, 28, Conviction. Rom. vii. 24. 

3. Passover. 
Ex, xii. 5, 7, Christ for us. 1 Cor. v. 7. 

4. Flight. 
Ex. xii. 40, 42. Repertance. Acts xxxiv. 20. 

5. Crossing the Red Sea. 
Ex. xiv. CouversioiT. 2 Cor. v. 17. 

6. Waters of Marah. 
Ex. XV. 23. Tem.jtatio]!. Heb. ii. 18. 

7. Manna, 
Ex, xvi. 4. Grace. 2 Cor. xii. 8. 

8. The Stayed Hands. 
Ex. xvii. 11. Priiv T. James v, 16. 

9. Law. 
Ex. XX. 17. Duty. John xiv. 15. 

10. Tabernacle Building. 
Ex. XXXV. 1, 9. Evangelization. 1 Cor. xvi. 1, 2, 

11. Aaron^s Calf. 

Ex. xxxil. 1. Idol 1 John v. 21. 

12. Profane Fire. 

Lev. X. 1, 2. Irreverence. Matt. xii. 36, 

13. Fearing the Giants. 
Num. xiv. 33. Doubt'ug. Heb. iii. 19. 

14. Wanderings. 
Num. xiv. 33. Discipline. 2 Tim. 2, 3. 

15. Serpents. 
Num. xxi. 6, Sir.s. 



16. TheLoAid. 
Deut.iii. 27. Heaven. Rev. xxi. 22. 



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BIBLE STUDIES. 151 

THE LIFE OF FAITH. 

Matt vi. 34; Isaiah xii. 2; Nahum i. 7; Prov. xviii ; Judges xvii. 10 ; Psalm Ixxxiv. 7 
Psalms Ixi. 2; Eph. v. 30; Acts ix. 34; Eph. ii. 14; Jer. xxxi. 14; 2 Sam. x. 11 
Psalm c. 2; Ezekiel xxiv. 14; Joel ii^; James i. 4 ; 2 Cor. ii ; Ex. xxxiv. 20 
Joeliii. 10; Job xxxii. 20; Joel ii, 27; Rom. viii. 31 ; Rev. i. 4; Ezek. xvi. 8. 

C. C. 



THE MIND OF CHEIST. 

Eph. iv. 32 ; Matt, xviii. 4 ; Heb. xii. 2 ; Matt. xi. 29; John iii. 36 ; 1 Peter ii. 23 ; 1 Cor. x. 31; 
Deut. vi. 17; Col. iii. 13; 1 Peter iii. 8; 1 Cor. xv. 58; Matt, xxvi, 39; Eph. iii. 19; 
Matt. xvi. 24 ; Prov. li. 5. 6. 



THE CHRISTIANS HEART AND TONGUE. 

Psalm xl. 8; Psalm xl. 10; Psalm xxxix. 3; Rom. x. 10; Matt. xii. 37; Psalm xix. 14; 
Isaiah xii. 3; Isaiah xii. 4; Psalm li. 10; Psalm li. 13; Acts ii, 4; Psalm cxlv. 11; 
Rev. xii. 11 ; Psalm Ixvi. 16 ; Psalm cxlv. 21 ; Rom. x, 9. 

Anon. 



FOR YOUNG CONVERTS. 

Isaiah xii. 1 : Heb. vi. 11, 12 ; Gal. ii. 20 ; Heb. x ; 2 Cor. x. 12 ; Isaiah xlviii. 18 ; Heb. vi, 1 ; 
James 1. 22; Heb. x. 25; Matt, xviii. 20; Mai. iii. 16; Acrs ii. 42; Psalm cxviii. 15; 
Matt. vi. 6; Psalm xix. 7; James iv. 17; 1 Tim. ii. 9; Eph. v. 4, 5; Prov, xiii. 20; 
Jam^s V. 20 ; Phil. xiii. 13, 14: Titus ii. 13, 14. 

C. D. C. 



PARENTS AS TEACHERS. 

Rom. V. 12; Gen. ix. 9; Deut. v. 2, 3; 2 Sam, xi. 12; 1 Cor. xii. 14; Gen, xviii. 19; 
Eph. vi. 4; 1 Cor. xv. 32; Gen. xvii. 9; Acts ii. 39; Deut. xxix. 11 ; Rom. ix. 4, 5; 
Eph. vi. 4 ; Deut. vi. 4-7. 

S. B. S. 



ACCESS TO GOD. 

Psalm Ixv. 4; John x. 7, 9; John xiv. 6; Rom. v, 2; Eph. ii 13; Eph. iii. 12; Heb. vii. 19, 25; 
Heb. xix. 19; 1 Peter iii. 18; Eph. ii. 18; Acts xiv. 27; Rom. v. 2; Heb. xi. 6 
Col. i. 21. 22; Deut. iv. 7; Matt. vi. 6. : 3; Psalm xv. 12; Pi^alm xxvii. 4; Psalm xliii.3 
Psalm xiv. 4; Heb. iv. 16; Psalm xxiii. 6; Psalm xxiv. 3, 4; Heb. x. 22, 23; 
Psalm xUi. 1, 2; Psalm Ixxxiv. 1, 2; Isaiah Iv. 6; James iv. 8; Isaiah ii. 2, 3; 
Jer. xxxi 6; Psalm cxlv. 18; Isaiah Iv. 3; John xiv 23; Psalm xvi. ii; Psalm Ixxiii. 28: 
1 John i. 3. 7: Ex. xxiv. 2; Ex. xxxiv. 4-7. Heb. xii. 18 22-24- 

A. P. 



152 BIBLE STUDIES. 

THE CHRISTIAN'S CONSECRATION. 

Rom. X. 10; Jolin xiv. 23; John xiii. 34; Rev. i, 5, 6 ; Rom. xii. 1, 2; 1 Cor. vi. 20; 
Titus ii. 12 ; 1 Cor. ix. 19, 20, 21; 1 Cor. vii. 16 ; Rom. ii. U; James v. 20 ; Acts iv. 12. 

S. B. S. 



REST IN JESUS. 

Gal. ii. 20; Ptalm cxix. 130; Ex. xxxiii. 14; Rom. viii. 31; Luke xviii. 17: Phil. iv. 9; 
Piov. xviii. 10. C. C. 



EXHORTATIONS TO CHRISTIANS. 

Jude 3 ; 1 These, v. 22; Eccles. ix. 8; 2 Tim. ii. 15; Jude 21; Phil. ii. 16; James iv. 2; 
Heb. xiii. 16; James i. 22 ; 1 John v. 21 ; 2 Tim. iv. 5. 

G. G. 



LOVE NOT THE WORLD.— WHY? 

Because the gain of it is the loss of the eoul.— Mutt. xiv. 25, 

Because its friendship is enmity Lo God.— James iv. 4. 

Because it did not know Christ.— John i. 10; John x^ii. 25. 

Because it hates Christ.— John vii. 7; John xv. 8. 

Because the Holy Spirit h.s forbidden us.— 1 John ii. 15. 

Because Christ did not pray for it. — John xvii. 9. 

Because Christ's people do not belong to it.— John xvii. 6, 

Because h will not receive the Spirit.— John xiv. 27. 

Because its Prince is Satar.—John xiii. 31; Johnxvi. 11. 

Because Christ's kingdom is noi in it.— John xviii. 36. 

Because its wisdom is foolishness.— 1 Cor. i. 20. 

Because its wisdom is ignorance.— 1 Cor. i. 21. 

Because Christ does not belong to it.— John viii. 23. 

Because it is condemned. — 1 Cor. xi.32. 

Because the fashion of it passeth aw&y.— 1 Cor. vii. 31. 

Because it slew Christ.— James v. 6; Matt. xxi. 39. 

Because it is crucified to us.— Gal. vi. 14. 

Because we are crucified to it.— Gal. vi. 14. 

Because it is the seat of wickedness.— 2 Peter i. 4; 1 John v. 19. 

Because its god is the evil one.— 2 Cor iv. 4. 

•Love not the world! It cannot be your home. 

Thy fatherland must he the woild to come ; 
There lay up treasures for eternity : ^ „ , , 

And where thy treasure is thy heart shall be. 

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BIBLE STUDIES. 153 

COMPASSION. 

1 Kings viii. 50; 2 Chron. xxx. 9; 2 KiDgs xiii. 23; Jer. xii. 15; Matt ix. 36; Matt. xiv. U; 

Mark i. 41; Markvi. 34; Miiikxviii 27. 
FlUZ o/.— PealmlxxTiii. 38; Psalm Ixxxvi. 15; Phalm iii. 4; Psalm cxii. 4; Luke vii. 13; 

Jer. xii. 15; Lam. iii. 32; Luke xv. 20. 

C. H. S. 



WORK. 



Marki. 16, ir;2Tim. ii. 15; 2 Tim. 16, 17; 1 Sam. xvii. 38, 40; 1 Cor. i. 27, 28; ISam. xvii.49; 
Judges XX. 16; 1 Chron. xii. 1, 2; Actslv. 42; Esther iv. 14. 

G.B.B. 



THE WRITTEN WORD. 

2 Tim. iii. 16, 17; 2 Peier i. 20, 21; Acts 1. 16; Deut. iv. 2; Prov. xxx. 5, 6; Luke xvi. 31 
Rev. xxii. 18, 19; Psalm cxix. 130; 2 Tim. iii. 15; Psalm cxix. 98; Heb. iv. 12 
James i, 21 ; 1 Peter i. 23; Eph. v. 25, 26; John xvii. 17; Rom. viii. 28; 2 Chron xvii. 9 
Neh, viii. 8; John v. 39; Acts xvii. 11; Acts, xviii. 28; Psalm i. 1, 2; Joshua i. 8 
Eph. vi. 1.2, 13; Rev. iii. 12, 21. Benediction— Heh. xiii. 20, 21. 

C. H. S. 



THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S SACRIFICE. 

Heb. ix. 26; 1 John iii. 5; 1 Peter ii. 24; Heb. ii, 14; 1 John iii. 8; Heb. ii. 15; Gal. i. 4; 
Titus ii. 14; Heb. xiii. 12; 2 Cor. v. 15; Rom. xiv. 9. 

C. E. D. 



CHRIST OUR REDEEMER. 

Deut. vii. 7, 8; Ex. xv. 13; 1 Perer i. 3-5; Lev. xxv. 47-49; Lev. xxv. 24, 25; Num. xxxv. 19 
Deut. xxv. 7-10; Job xix. 25, 26; Isaiah Iii. 3; Isaiah lix. 16-20; Luke i, 68-70 
Lukexxiv. 21; Eph. i. 7; 1 Tim. ii. 6; Heb. ix. 12; 1 Pcier i. 18, 19; Heb. ii. 5 
2 Peter iii. 13; Eph. i. 14; 2 Cor. iv. 7; Jer. xxx^i. 14; Heb. ix. 26; Col. ii. 14, 15 
Rom. viii. 21-23; 1 Cor. xv. 26, 54, 58; Heb. ii. 14r Rom. xii. 9-11; Rev. xx. 10 
Rom. ix. 8, 30, 31; Gal. iii. 26, 27, 29; Gal. iv. 4-^: John i. 12, 13. 

D. W W, 



WHAT THE CHRISTIAN MAY BE. 

2 Tim. ii. 1 ; 1 Tim. ii 2; 2 Tim. ii. 6; 2 Tim, ii. 14, 15. 



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154 BIBLE STUDIES. 

THE WAY OF SALVATION. 

Prov. xiv. 12; Isaiah xlv. 20 22; Jer. iii. 13; Rom. iii. 19, 20; 2 Peter ii. 1-3; Ezek. xiii. 2i 
Isaiah V. 20; John v. 39; Isaiah vii. 14; Matthew 1. 22, 23; Micah v. 2; Lukeii. 4, 6: 
Matt. ii. 1; Isaiah ix. 1, 2; Mait, iv. 12, 15, 16 23; Isaiah xxxv. 5, (5; Matthew xi. 4, 5 
John xi. 47; John xiv. 6; John iii. 14, 16; John vi. 44; John xvi. 13; John xiv. 26 
John xvii. 3; John iii. 3, 5. 6; John iv. 24; John vi. 53, 54; 2 Peter i. 4; John vi. 40 
Joiin xii. 44, 46; 1 John ii. 1, 2; 1 Tim. i. 15; Rom. x. 10; John iii. 36; Titus iii, 5, 6, 7 
Isaiah xliii. 1, 25; Isaiah xliv. 22; 1 John iii. 14; Hebrews x. 38, 39 ; Galatlansiii. 18 
Rom. viii. 15. 16; 2 Tim. i. 12; Eph. ii. 3, 12, 19, 20. 

A. F. 



TEMPERANCE. 

Gen. xl. 11; Isaiah xlix. 26; Proverbs xxiii. 29, 30-32; Isaiah v. 11, 12, 14, 22-24; Joel iii. 3 
Prov. XX. 1; Prov. xxxi.4, 5; Lev. x. 9; Jeremiah xxxv; Isaiah xwiii ; Psalm Ixxv. 8 
Jer xiii. 12; Prov. iv. 14, 17 ; Eph. v. 18 ; Galatians v. 21 ; 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10 ; Hebrews ii. 15 
Prov. xxiii. 20, 21 ; John vii 37 ; Isaiah Iv. 1, 2, John iv. 13, 14 ; Rev. xxii. 17 ; Matt. xxii. 1-13 
Matt. iv. 4, 10; Heb. ii. 18; Heb. iv. 15; 1 Cor. x. 13;, Matthew xxvi. 41; 1 Cor. x. 12 
Acts xvi. 30, 31 ; John iii. 16 ; Luke ix. 56 ; Luke xix. 10 : Acts iv. 12. ^ F 



THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER 

Col. ii. 10; 1 John iv. 17; Eph. i. 6 ; Col. i. 14 ; 1 John v. 20 ; Eph. ii. 5 ; Eph. ii. 6 ; Col. iii. 3 
Eph. i. 3; Col. i.l3; Eph. i. 11; John xiv. 27; John iv. 14; Psalm xxiii. 6 ; Psalm xxiii. 2 
Rom viii. 32; Psalm iv. 8; Psalm Ixxxiv. 11 ; Rom. xii 1 ; Col. iii. 12; Ephesians iv. 1 
Eph. v. 1 ; Heb. xiii. 13; Heb. x. 22; James iii. 1 ; 2 Peter i. 10; 1 John ii. 28. 

Anon. 



PEACE. 

Phil. iv. 9; Jer. xxix. 11 ; Luke ii. 14; Col. i. 20; Isaiah liii. 5; Psalm Ixxxv, 10; Johnxx. 19, 20; 
Acts X. 36; Eph. ii. 17: Eph. ii. 14; Rom. xv. 13: Rom. v. 1 ; Phil. iv. 7. 

Anon. 



SPEAKING AND WORKING. 

Jer. i. 6, 7; 2 Cor. xiii. 3; Acts xviii. 9, 10; Dent. vi. 7; Haggai ii. 4; 2'Cor. v. 20; Exodus iv. 12; 
2 Cor. vi. 1 ; Hebrews xi 33, 34; 2 Cor. ii. 14; 1 Cor ii. 5; Romans x. 9; Matthew x. 20; 
Matt. X. 32, 33; Mark viii. 38. Anon. 



FEAR NOT. 

Isaiah xliii. 1 ; Isaiah ii. 11 ; Psalm xxii. 26; Luke xii. 32; Ex. xiv. 13; Heb. xii 28; Jonah ii. 9; 
Ex. XX. 20; Isaiah xii. 2; Psalm xvii. 3; H*ggai ii. 5; Matthew yviii. 5; Zech. viii. 13; 
Mai, iv. 2; Mai. ii. 5 ; Isaiah Ii. 7; Gen. xliii. 23; Matt. x. 26; Rev. i. 17. 

Anon. 



BIBLE STUDIES. 155 

LOYE ONE ANOTHER. 

Eph. iv. 1, 2; 1 John iii. 14-18; John xiii. 34, 35; 1 Cor. xiii. 2; 1 Cor. xiv. 1; Leviticus xix. 18; 
Eph. i. 4 ; 1 These, iv. 9 ; 1 These, iii. 12, 13 ; 1 John iii. 11 ; 1 John Iv. 10, 11, 21 ; John xv. 12; 
1 Cor. ii. 9; 1 Peter i. 22. Anon. 



SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUNG CHRISTIANS. 

1 Cor. X. 31 ; 2 Cor. x, 11; Heb. xi. 6; John x. 27; John v. 39; Rom. iii. 4; Matthew vi. 13, 16; 
1 John V. 10, 11 ; Col. iii. 17; John xv. 8; Rom. xiv. 24; John xv. 5. 

Anon. 



BELIEYE AND LIYE. 

John iii. 36; Rom. vi. 23; John v. 14; John iii. 36; John iii. 14, 15; Mark xvi, 46; Acts xiii. 39; 
Heb. ii. 3; Rom. iv. 5; Luke xiii. 3; Ezek. xviii. 4; John iii. 18. 

Anon. 



THE KINGDOM OF GOD, 

Jamee ii. 5; Matt. v. 3; Col. iii. 24; Luke vi. 20 ; Psalm xxxviii. 11 ; Acts xiv. 22 ; Ps. xvi. 5. 6; 
Luke xxiii. 42; Prov. iii. 35; Luke xxi. 31; Matt xxv. 34; Acts xx. 32; Luke xvii. 20, 21 ; 
Luke xii. 32; Rom. xiv. 17. 18: Isaiah Ivii. 15. 

Anon. 



OUR WORDS. 

Psalm xix. 14; Matt, xi 29; Ex. iv. 12; Isaiah Ixvl. 2; Isaiah 1.4; John vi. 63; Matt. xii. 37; 
John xiv. 23; Psalm cxli. 3; Luke xxiv. 8; Prov xv. 1; Mai. iii. 16. 17; Prov. xxv 11-15; 
Psalm cxix. 169: Prov. xv. 23; Col. iv. 6: Luke iv. 22. 

Anon. 



PRAYER. 

Psalm, i. 15; Psalm Ixxxi. 10; Psalm cxlv. 18; Isaiah Iviii. 9; Psalm xxxiv. 4; Psalm cxiv. 1; 
Psalm cxxxviii. 3; Isa. Iv. 6. 

Anon. 



GRACE. 



James iv. 6; Prov. iii. 34: Psalm xxxiv. 11 ; Psalm xiv. 2: John i. 14; John i. 16: 2 Cor. x. 21 ; 
2 Cor. vi. 1; Rom. v. 17: 2 Cor. ix. 8: Heb. xii. 17. 15: 2 Corinthians viii. 9; Eph. iv 17; 
Col iv. 7; 2 Tim. ii. 1 ; Hosea xiv. 2; Mai. i. 9: Gen. xxxiii. 11 ; 1 Tim. vi. 20, 21. 

Anon. 



156 BIBLE STUDIES. 

RETURN. 



1 Sam. vii. 3; 2 Chron. xxx. 9; Isaiah Iv. 7; Joel ii. 13. 

Anon 



^ BIBLE COVENANTS. 

1 Chron. xvii. 7-36; Genesis vi. 13, 18; Genesis ix. 8-11 ; Genesis xvii 4, 7; Exodus ii. 24, 26; 
Ex. xxxiv. 27, 28; Gen. xxi. 25, 27; Gen. xxxi. 43-45; 1 Sam. xviii. 13; Jer. xxxiv. 8, 9; 
Matt. xxvi. 14, 16 ; John xiv. 12, 14. 

Anon. 



GOD'S WRITTEN THOUGHTS ABOUT US. 

. of Sol. iv. 1; Horn, viii 1; Rom. viii. 33; Col. ii. 10; 2 Tim. ii. 11; Rev. i 6; 2 Cor. v. 17; 
Rom. iv. 7; S. of Sol. iv. 7; Heh. x. 17: 1 Cor. vi. 17 ; 1 Corinthians iii. 9; 1 Cor. iii. 16; 
Eph. ii. 18 ; Romans viii. 30; 1 Peter ii. 9; 1 John iv. 4; John xiii. 10; Romans viii. 15; 
Eph. V. 8; Col. iii. 3; 2 Tim. i. 9; Matt xiii. 46; Matt. xiii. 44; Mai. iii. 17; Matt. v. 14; 
Matt. V. 13; 2 Cor. iii 3; 1 Cor. xii. 27. Anon. 



GOD'S LOVE. 

1 John iii. 3; Jer. xxxi. 3; Rom. viii. 35; Rom. viii. 36; John x. 28; John xiii. 1; John xiv. 3; 
John xiv. 23; Heb. xii. 6; Heb. xiii. 5; Proverbs xviii. 25; Isaiah xlix. 16; John xiv. 2; 
John xiv. 27 ; John xv. 0; 1 Peter v. 7 : Matt. xi. 28. 

Anon. 



CONCERNING GOD. 

John iv 24; Rom. xvi. 27; 1 Tim 1. 11: Ps. xii 11; James i. 17; 1 Tim i. 11; Ps. cxxxix. 7 10; 
Heb. iv. 13- Isaiah vi. 3; Ps. cxlv. 17; Mark xii. 32; John xvii. 3; 1 John iv. 8; 1 John i. 5: 
Matt. vi. 9; Luke xi. 2; Isaiah Ixiv. 8; Psalm ciii. 13; John xx. 17; Rom. viii. 15; Gal. iv. 6; 
Isaiah ix. 6. Anon. 



YE. 



Col. it^lO; 1 Cor iii. 9; 1 Peter ii.9; John iv. 9; Rom. viii. 15; 2 Cor. iii. 3; Ephesiana t. 8: 
Col, iii. 3; 2 Tim. i. 9; Matt. v. 14; Matt. v. 13; 1 Cor. xii. 27. 

Anon, 



PEACE. 



Phil. iv. 9; Jer. xxxi x. 11; Luke ii. 14; Col i. 20; Isaiah liii. 5; Psalm Ixxxv. 10; Johnxx 19,20> 
Acts X. 36; Eph. ii. 17; Eph. ii. 14; Rom. xv. 13; Rom. v. 1 : Phil. iv. 7. 

Anon. 



BIBLE STUDIES. 1^7 

THE FOOL. 

Proverbs i 7' i 22: i. 32; iii. 35: v. 23; vii. 22; viii. 5; ix. 13; x. 1 ; x. 10; x. 14; x. 18; x. 21; 
X 23 xi 29; xii 1; xii. 15 ; xik. 3; xix.lO; xix. 13; xix.29;xx,3; xxi.20; xxii.lS; 
xxiii'9; xxiv. 7; xxiv. 9; xxvi. 1; xxvi 3; xxvi. 4; xxvi 6; xxyi. 6; xxvl 7; xxvi.8; 
inwvi. 9 ; xxvi. 10; xxvi. 11: xxvi. 12; xxvii. 3; xxvii.22; xxviii.26; xxix. 9; xxix. 11; 



XXX. 3. 



Anon. 



BIBLE WORDS ABOUT ORPHANS. 

Dent. XV. 11; John xii. 8; Ezek. xxii. 7;Ex.xxii. 22; Dent xxiv. 17; Zech. vii. 10: Ps. xciv 6; 
Deut. xxvii. 19; Isaiah x 2; Mai. iii. 5; Joh xxii. 7; Job xxxi.4; Job xxn. 9 Job xxxi. 16; 
Job xxxi. 17 ; Job xxxi. 19 ; Job xxxi. 21 ; Job xxxi. 28 ; James i. 27 ; Isa. i. 17 ; d er. xxn. 3 ; 
Deut. X. 18; Psalm x. 14; Psalm x. 18; Psalm. Ixviii. 5; Psalm cxlvi. 9; Hosea xiv 3; 
Prov. xxiii. 10, 11 ; Lev. xxv. 35 ; Deut. xv. 7 ; Psalm xii. 1 ; Prov. xix. 17; James ii. 15, 16; 
Matt. XXV. 34-36. W M K 



THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 

Romans vii. 18;. 1 John iii. 5„; John ^,J9;. J.ota x. M| 2„ Timothy J. ^12; John^^xiv., 17; 
John xvu. 
2 Cor. iv, 

Matt. xiii. -^, ., .. ^ ^ , o^ 

2 Timothy iii. 1 ; 1 Thess. v. 2 ; John in . 2; Hebrews x. 34. j H B 



THE WORKER'S COMMISSIONS. 

t. V. 14-16; Luke viii. 16; Matt. ix. 37, 38; Matt. x. 5- 
33; Mark viii. 38; Matt. xx. 25-28; Matthew xxi. 28 ; 
^Latt^.w ^^v.l9; Luke viii. 38, 39; Psalm Ixvi. 16; Luke ix 59,^60: ^_, ^ . ... 

40; Luke xxii. 54, 62; Kom. i. 13-15; 1 Cor. ix. 16, 17; Matt. xxvm. 18-20; Mam xvi. 15, 
Luke xxiv. 46-51 ; John xv. 13-16, 26, 27; John xvii. 18; Acts i. 7, 11. n m w 



Matt. iv. 18-22; Matt. v. 14-16; Luke viii. 16; Matt. ix. 37, 38; Matt, x 5-8; 1 Peter iv. 10, 11; 
Matt. X. 27, 32,33; Markviii.38; Matt. xx. 25-28; Matthew xxi 28 ; Mattnew xxn 1-10, 
Matthew xxv. 19; Luke viii. 38, 39; Psalm Ixvi. 16; Luke ix 59,^60; Luke xix. 13, 15, 37, 



C. M. W. 



JESUS HIMSELF. 

Matthew villi 17; Matt, xxvii. 42 ; Mark v. 30 ; Luke xix 12; Luke xxiii. 2 ; Luke xxiv. 27 ; 
John ii. 24; John v. 18; John v. 19; John v. 26; John vi. 61; John xi. 38; John xni. 4, 



Heb ix 25; Heb. ix. 26: Heb. xii. 3; 1 Peter ii. 24. j H B 



158 BIBLE STUDIES. 

BEHOLD THE MAN ! 

John xix.5; Zech. xiii. 7 ; Ruth ii. ^20 : Phil. ii. 7; Heb. ii. 14; Job ix 32; 1 Timothy ii. 6; 
Isaiah xxxii. 2; Exodus xvii. 0: John xix. 34; Lam. iii. 1; 1 Samuel i. 11-13; Isaiah liii. 3; 
Pyalm xxiii. 4; Psalm cxliii 3, 9; Jer. 1. 20; Philippians iii. 9; Acts xiii 38; Luke xv. 2; 
1 Chron. xxii. 9; Matthew xi. 28; Mi* ah v. 5; Ephesians ii. 14; John xiv. 27: John vii. 46; 
Lukeiv. 22; Isaiah 1. 4; Luke iv. 32; Gen. xxiv. 58: John v. 6; John vii. 17; Hosea vi. 3; 
Mark X. 51: Exodus xiii. 18; Deut ii 7: Psa m cvii. 7; Psalm cvi. 9: Isaiah Ixiii 12-14; 
Jer. xxxi 9; Rev. xiv. 4; Daniei iii. 25; Hebrews ii. 10-17; Isaiah liii. 3; Joshua xxiv. 3; 
Isaiah xiii. 6, 7; Matt. xxi. 28; Ruth ii. 19; 2 Cor. xiii. 5; 1 Samuel xiv. 45; 2 Cor. vi. 1; 
1 Chron. iv. 23; Ezek. x. 21; Col. i. 29; Joshua v. 13, 14; Hebrews ii. 10; Acts xvi. 14; 
1 Samuel X. 26, 27; Luke xix. 14; Isaiah liii. 3; Acts xiii. 41; Genesis xxxii. 24, 26; 
Gen xxiv. 56; Heb. iii. 7; Matthew xxvii.22; Johnxix. 5; Hebrews ii. 9; Isaiah Ixii. 3; 
Eztk. i. 26, 28; Hosea i. 4; Heb. x. 12; Acts vii. 55; Zech. vi. 12, 13; Rev.i. 7; Acts i. 11; 
Psalm Ixviii. 18; Genesis xxiv. 58. 

The Chbistian. 



RELATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO US AS A PERSON. 

John xiv 26; John xv. 26; John xvi. 7; John xvi. 8; John xvi. 9; John xvi. 10; John xvi. 11; 
John xvi. 13; John xvi. 14; John xx. 22; Acts i 5; Acts i. 8; Acts ii. 1-4; Acts ii. 38; 
Acts iv. 8: Acts iv. 31; Acts v. 3; Acts viii. 29; Acts ix. 17; Acts x. 19; Acts x. 44, 45. 

H. M. P. 



JOY. 

Isaiah Iv. 10-13; Eccles. ii. 26; Psalm iv. 7; Isaiah Ixi. 3; Galatians v. 22: Leviticus ii 10; 
Neh.viii. 10, 11, 12; Jer. xv. 16; Isaiah xxxv. 10; Isaiah Iv. 12; Isaiah Ivi. 7; Ecclts ii. 10, 11: 
Eccles. xi. 8; Isaiah xxix. 19; Psalm xvi. 11; Psalm cxlix. 2; Heb. iii. 18; Romans v. 11; 
Luke i. 47; Philippians iii. 3 ; Romans xiv 7; Acts viii. 5-8; Psalm xii. 11; Luke vi. 23; 
1 Peter i. 18; 2 Cor. vi. 10: Phil. iv. 4: 1 Thess. v. 16; James i. 2; James v. 13; Eph v. 19; 
John xvii. 13: Hebrews xii. 2; 3 John 4. 

J. W. Dean. 



DAILY. 



Matthew vi. 11; Luke ix. 23; Acts ii. 45, 47; Acts v. 42; Acts xvii. 11; 1 Cor. xv. 31; Heb. iii. 13; 
Hebrews x. 24; Prov. viii. 34; Psalm Ixviii. 19; Psalm Ixxii. 15. 

Anon. 



BENEFITS FROM THE STUDY OF GOD'S WORD. 

1 Peter ii. 2 ; Acts xx. 32; Psalm xi.v 7 ; John xvii. 17 ; Psalm c^ix. 105, 9 ; Psalm xvii. 4; 
Psalm cxix. 11 ; Matt. K>ii. 29: Psalm cxix. 45, 165; Psalm xix 8; Rom. xv. 4 ; John xv.7; 
eTuflues XX. 8, 9; James i. 8; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. 

R. A. O. 



BIBLE STUDIES. 159 



THE WORD. 



ICor. ii.l3; 1 Tlieee. ii. 13: John xvii 17: Psalm c\Lx. 161 ; Isaiah xlvi. 2; 1 Cor ii. 14 
Psalm cxix. 18: Heb iv. 2 ; 1 Thess. ii. IS: Psalm cxix, 66 ; Acts xvii. 11 ; James i. 21 
Mark vii. 13: Luke v 5: Deuteronomy xvii. 18, 19; John v. 39; Psalm i. 2; John xv. 16 
Psalm xix. 10; Psalm cxix. 149; Micah ii. 7. 

R. A O. 



MY BESETTING SIN; HOW CAN I GET STRENGTH TO 

OVERCOME IT? 

Romans vii. 15-21; Psalm xxVii. 14; Psalm xxix. 11; Isaiah xl. 25-31 ; Psalm Ixviii. 35; 
Heb. xi. 31-34; Rom. viii, 26; Rom. vii. 25; Rom. vlii. 1, 2; Heb. xii. 1, 2. 

R. R. McB. 



CONFESS ( HRIST BEFORE MEN. 

1 Cor. xii. 3 ; John ix. 25, 33; Acts vii. 52-59; Acts iv. 8-12; Acts viii, 36, 37 ; Acts xxiv. 14; 
1 Tim. vi. 12; Rev. i. 9; John xii. 42, 43; John vii. 13; Mark viii. 35; 2 Timothy Ii. IS; 
Rom. X. 9, 10; Mark viii. 38; Matt. x. 32, 33; 1 John ii. 23; 1 John iv. 15. 

R. R. McB. 



SELLING ONE'S OPPORTUNITY. 

Gen. XXV. 27-34; Heb. xii. 14-17; Matt. xix. 16-22; Matt. xxvi. 14-16: Matt, xxvii. .3-5: Actsi, 25; 
Mark xv. 15; Acts xxiv. 24-27; Prov. xxvii. 1; 2 Cor. vi. 2. 

R. R McB. 

^^AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER 1" AND IF SO, HOW 1 

1 John iii, 10-18 : John xv. 12; Lev xix. 17, 18. (Compare 1 Cor. v. 1-5, with 2 Cor. ii. 5-11); 
2 Thess. iii. 14, 15; Gal. vi. 1, 2; Matthew v. 43-47: Phil. ii. 4-8; 1 Corinthians x. 24. 33; 
1 Cor. ix. 19, 22. Rom.xv. 1-3; James v. 19-20. 

R. R. McB. 



SHOULD I FORGET MY FORGIVEN SINS? 

Psalm xxxii. 1; Tsaiah xliii. 25; Psalm Ixxxv. 2; Isaiah xxxviii. 17; Micah vii. 18,19; 
Psalm ciii. 12; Romans viii. 1, 2: Phil. iii. 13, 14; Hebrews xii. 1, 2; Numbers xxi. 6-9; 
John iii. 14, 15; 2 Cor. iii. 18. R. R. McB. 



WHAT IS IT TO BE A CHRISTIAN ? 

Johnxiv. 6, 7; Luke xiv. 26, 27; Luke ix. 23; 2 Timothy i. 12; Galatians ii. 20; 1 John iv. 13; 
1 Cor. iii. 16; 1 Cor. vi 19; John xv. 15; Gal. iv. 6-8; 2 Cor. vi. 16; 2 Corinthians v. 7-17. 
Exhortation, 1 Peter iv. 1-3; Col. iii. 7. 

R. R. McB. 



160 BIBLE STUDIES. 

MAY WE KNOV/ NOW THAT OUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN? 

Mark ii. 3-5; Luke i. 77-79; Acts xiii. 38, 39; Acts xxvi. 18; Roxnane viii. 16; Eph. i. 6, 7; 
Eph. iv. 32; Col. i. 14; 1 John ii. 12; 1 John iii. 14, 19; 1 John iv. 13; 1 John v. 10-13. 

R. R. McB. 



THE WORLD, AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT. 

Genesis xiii. 8-13 ; Genesis xix. 1, 12-17, 24. 25 ; 2 Peter ii. 7, 8. For reference, Mark viii. ^; 
John X viii. 30; 1 John ii 15,16; John xv. 18, 19; Jas. iv. 4; Rom. xii. 2, The world 
overcome, John xvi. 33; 1 John v. 4, 5; Gal. vi. 14. 

R. R. McB. 



THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE. 



Key Text— 1 Cor. viii. 9. 



HIS RICHES. 
Rev. xxii. 13. 
1 Kings viii. 27. 
John 1. 18. 
1 Cor. i. 24. 
Phil. ii. 6. 
Psalm xxiv. 1. 
Heb. i. 2. 
Isaiah ix. 6. 
Acts vii. 49,50. 
Jamts i. 13. 
Psalm i. 9-12. 
Isaiah Ivii. 15. 
Isaiah xl. 28, 22. 
Isaiah xl. 12. 
Daniel vii. 10. 
Psalm Ixxix. 6. 
Rom. xi. 35. 
Exod. xix. 11, 12. 
Isaiah Ixiii 1. 
Isaiah vi. 3. 
John xvii. 24. 
John xiii. 3. 
Daniel x. 56, 
Psalm xxi 6. 
Prov. viii. 30. 
Rev. XX. 11. 
1 Sam. XV 29. 
Heh. vii. 26. 
Isaiah xliii. 13. 
Isaiah xxii. 24. 
Dan. iv. 35. 
Phil. ii. 9. . 
Psalm : Iv. 2. 
Heb. ii. 9. 
Psalm cxxxix. 12. 
Ool. i. 16. 



HIS POVERTY. 
Isaiah vii. 14. 
Luke ii. 7. 
Luke ii. 7. 
Lukeii. 51. 52. 
Phil. ii. 7. 
Jobni 10,11. 
Mark vi. 3. 
Isaiah ix. 6. 
Luke ix. 58. 
Mark i. 13. 
Luke iv. 2. 
Luke XV. 2. 
John iv. 6. 
John iv. 7. 
Mark x. 45. 
Luke xxii. 27. 
Luke viii. 2, 3. 
Luke vii 39. 
Psalm Ixix. 11. 
John X. 20. 
John XV. 25. 
John xiii. 4, 5. 
Isaiah liii. 2. 
Isaiah liii. 3. 
Isaiah liii. 3. 
Luke xxii. 44. 
Luke xxii. 43. 
Isaiah liii. 12. 
Mark ix. 31. 32. 
Matt. xxiv. 15. 
John XV iii. 12. 
Matt. xxvi. 59 
Matt. xxvi. 65 
John xix. 2. 
Luke xxii. 6-4 
Matt, xxvii. 28-30. 



Anon. 



Alphabetical Index 

— OF— 

CHAPTERS, BIBLE READINGS AND BIBLE STUDIES. 



TOPIC. AUTH0B. PAGE. 

Abiding in Christ Charles Cuilis 120 

Abiding in Christ Charles Cuilis 122 

Abiding with Christ Rev. W. F. Crafts 73 

Able Rev. Chas M. Whittlesey. . . . 50 

Access to God Allen Folger 151 

Adoption Anon, 118 

Afflictions • Rev. W. F. Crafts 124 

All D. A. Sinclair 135 

All Have Sinned Thomas Chalmers 126 

Am I my Brother's Keeper?. . . . R. R. McBiirney 159 

Amusements Rev W. S. Rainsford, B A.. 80 

Amusements Rev. W. F. Crafts ., 128 

Angels J. TI. Vincent, D. D 141 

Anointing J. H. Vincent, D. D 145 

"As"" and ''So" of the Bible Anon 79 

Assurance J. M. Meeker 53 

Assurances *. Anon 121 

Assurance of Salvation Anon 137 

Atonement, The- Eev. E P. Gardner 61 

Behold the Man .'. The Christian 158 

Believe and Live Anon 155 

Believer-s Attitude to the Church, The Rev Dr. Bishop 38 

Believer's Calling, The. Rev. Geo. A. Hall 73 

Believer's Confidence, The H. B. Chamberlin 106 

Believer's Confidence, The Anon 137 

Believer's Future, The Thomas Chalmers 126 

Believer's Inheritance M. T. S 60 

Believer's Position, The Rev. G. F. Pentecost .51 

Believer's Rejoicings, The W. S. Rainsford, B A 88 

Benefits from the Study of God's Word. R. A. Orr 158 

Benefits of Trials H. B. Chamberlin 104 

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162 BIBLE READINGS. 

TOPIC. AUTHOR. PAGE 

Bible and Childhood, The Rev. W. F. Crafts 83 

Bible and its Teachers, The Rev. W. F. Crafts 83 

Bible Covenants Anon 15(i 

Bible Honey M. T. S 66 

Bible Keadin-— Service of Song Philip Phillips 41 

Biblc-Readiifgs and Bible Marking Rev. Joseph Cook 7 

Bible Readings, How to Prepare and Row to Use. , D. W. Whittle 8 

Bible View of Prayer Rev. W. F. Crafts 76 

Bib'.e with Inquirers, The Lev. Geo, A. Hall 10 

Bible Words about Orphans , W. M. Kemp 1.57 

Blackboard Bible-Reading Thos Sinclair 112 

Blood of Christ Rev. H. M. Parsons . . 97 

Blood of the New Testament Rev. G. J. Brown 100 

Book of Books Anon 62 

Barnt Offering, The Anon 94 

Cliance Anon 59 

Characteristics of Sonship Times of Blessing 96 

Children of God H. B. Chamberlin 104 

Children's Duties Anon 134 

Choice, The J.M.Meeker 55 

Christ a King •. J. H. Vincent, D. D 139 

Christhood of Jesus ; Dr. L W. Munhall 110 

Christ in Exodus Miss Sarah F. Smiley 38 

Christ in the Old Testament D W. Whittle 37 

Christ is All and In All S. G 89 

Christ Jesus a Living Saviour Anon 121 

Christ Jesus a Saviour to the Uttermost Anon 122 

Christ our Ark J. H. Vincent, D.D 143 

Christ our All Charles CuUis. 149 

Christ our Life Anon 148 

Christ our Redeemer D. W. W 153 

Christ Seeking Lost Sheep M. T. S 63 

Christ's Care for His People M. T. S 65 

Christ's Life J. H. Vincent, D. D 148 

Christian an Ambassador, The M. T. S 64 

Christian and His Portion, The Anon 67 

Christian Attainments .^. H. B. Chamberlin 104 

Christian Forbearance .". Thomas Chalmers 135 

Christian Life a Race M. T. S 64 

Christian Like the Eagle M. T. S OS 

Christian Living Anon 122 

Christian Service Rev. W. M. Peacock 87 

Christian Testimony A. P. C 119 

Christian Unity J. H. Vincent, D. D 140 

Christian Work Anon 122 



INDEX. 163 

TOPIC. AUTHOR, PAGE. 

Christian Work Thomas Chalmers 135 

Christiau Workers Wm. Keynoids 80 

Chri3liau^s Calling, The Rev. G. A. Hall 107 

Christian's Consi;cration, The Rev. S. B. Schieflaiu 152 

Christian^ Heart and Tongue, The — Anon 151 

' Christian's Inheritance, The G. H. Bradbury 78 

Christian's Light, The M. T. S 62 

Christia 's Portion, The Anon 125 

Christian's Slate, The Anon 142 

Christian's Strength, The Golden Grains 119 

Christian's Walk, The C.E.Dyer 114 

Christmas Bible Readings Hon. H. P. Haven 109 

Church, The Rev. W. F. Crafts 59 

Church in Her Relation to Christ, The Rev. H. W. Brown 37 

Cities of Refuge Harry Morehouse 95 

Cloud of Glory, The G. C. Needhara 111 

Come Anon 137 

Come Charles Cullis , 147 

"Comes" of our Lord Jesus Christ Anon 82 

Come to Jesus Anon 79 

Comforts for Travelers Anon 1.37 

Coming of the Lord Anon 142 

Coming of the Lord, Fact and Use Rev. H. M. Parsons 4S 

Coming of the Lord the Hope of the Church, The Rev. C. M. Whittlesey 37 

Coming to Christ Miss Dora Allen 54 

Communion with God Anon 105 

Compassion C. H. Schueler 153 

Concerning God Anon 156 

Condemnation, Redemption, Invitation H. B. Chamberlin 83 

Condemnation and Salvation Rev. H. M Parsons 60 

Conditions of Prevailing Prayer Rev. W. F Crafts 73 

Confess Christ before Men R. R. McBurney 159 

Confessing Christ Anon 123 

Confession of Sin H. B Chamberlin 90 

Confession of Sin Anon 123 

Confidence .'Charles Cullis 144 

Conscience '. H. B. Chamberlin 66 

Conscience Rev. W. F. Crafts 127 

Consecration Anon 141 

Consecration Charles Cullis 149 

Consider Anon 145 

Contrasts between Christians and the World Rev. Geo. A. Hall 78 

Covenants J. H. Vinrent, D. D 140 

Cries of Jesus Anon 127 

Daily Anon 158 



164 BIBLE READINGS. 

TOPIC. AUTHOR. PAGE. 

Danger of Unbelief Thomas Ohalmere 136 

Dead to Sin, Living to Righteousness Anon 128 

Dedication, A Anon 129 

Death Rev. H. M. Parsons 91 

Decision Anon 101 

Difficulties in the Bible Rev. W. F. Crafts 60 

Diligence Rev. W. F. Crafts 60 

Diligence Thomas Chalmers 133 

Endowment of Power , Charles Cullis. .'. 144 

Eternal Future Punishment Rev. H. M. Parsons 48 

Everlasting Anon 144 

Everlasting Arms, The M. T. S 67 

Evidences of Souship L. W. Munhall 55 

Evidences of Sonship Anon 139 

Exceeding Riches of His Grace, The Anon 160 

Excuses for not Obeying God Rev. W. F. Crafts 138 

Exhortations to Christians Golden Grains 152 

Faith in Exercise . J. L. M 127 

Faith in God Charles Cullis 149 

Fear Not Anon 154 

Fellow-Helpers Rev. W. F. Crafts 106 

Fellowship The Watchman 72 

Five Gatherings R. C. Morgan 95 

Flesh and the Spirit, The Rev. W. J. Erdman 127 

Following the Lord Rev. S, A. Taggart 78 

FooL The The Truth 109 

Fool, The Anon 167 

Forgiveness ." Harry Morehouse 99 

Forgiveness Anon 125 

Four Things to Do A. P. C . . , 63 

For Young Converts CD. Choate . 161 

From Bondage to the Land of Promise Rev. W. F. Crafts 150 

From the Cross to the Crown Wm. F. Sherwin 39 

Fruit of the Spirit Rev. W. F. Crafts 77 

Fruits of Faith , Thomas Chalmers 136 

Fruits of the Spirit * Thomas Chalmers 136 

Furnished for Work D. W. Whittle 6 

Garment of Praise M. T. S 64 

Gifts of God Harry Morehouse 96 

GiftsofGod Rev. G. F. Pentecost 105 

Glory Anon 128 

God a Refuge M. T. S 65 

God Gives to Believers Anon 123 

God Gives to us all Anon 121 

God in Us Charles Cullis 148 



INDEX. i 65 

TOPIC. ADTHOB. PAGE. 

God is Able Harry Morehouse 94 

God is Light .% M T. S 61 

God is Love Charles Cullis 120 

God Near at Haud Ar.on 142 

God our Deliverer Rev. W. F. Crafts. 71 

God our Guide M T. S 69 

God, the Giver Auou 121 

God's Attributes Anou 130 

God's Care for ''The Apple of His Eye." M. T. S 71 

God's Care of His Children Geo. B. Meadows 53 

God's Care of His People Golden Grains 119 

God's Deliverance and God's Call Anon 121 

God's Description of His Word Rev. C. M. Whittlesey 106 

God's Garden M. T. S 67 

God's Gifts Anon 150 

God's Leadings Anon 142 

God's Love Harry Morehouse 93 

God's Love .H. B. Chamberlin 107 

God's Love Anon 156 

God's Love for His People Charles Cullis 117 

God's Mercy Thomas Chalmers 125 

God's People W. Hind Smith 58 

God's Promises Rev. W. F. Crafts 59 

God's Providence Thomas Chalmers 135 

God's Thoughts of our Sins Rev. H. M. Parsons 48 

God's Way Anon 123 

God's Word a Mirror M. T. S 69 

God's Words Anon 81 

God's Written Thoughts about us Anon 156 

Good News Anon 57 

Good Shepherd, The ' J. H. Vincent, D. D 67 

Good Shepherd, The Anon 138 

Gospel Arithmetic G. W. Cobb 51 

Gospel Invitation Rev. J. N. Crocker 101 

Gospel Railroad G. W. Cobb 52 

Gospel Railroad Dutton and Milligan 58 

Gospel of the Grace of God L. W. Munhall 55 

Grace , D. L Moody 42 

Grace... D. L.Moody 66 

Grace Rev. Geo. Alexander 97 

Grace Anon 122 

Grace Anon 155 

Grace and Glory Charles Cullis 117 

Growth and Food Rev. Chas. M. Whittlesey 57 

Growth iu Grace Anon 137 



166 BIBLE READINGS. 

TOPIC. AUTHOR PAGE. 

Hands and Feet of Jesus, The B. F. Jacobs 146 

Have Rev. J. H. Brookes 124 

Heaven ' Rev. Geo. Alexander 79 

Heaven D. L. Moody 81 

Heaven W E. Hobson 103 

Heavenly Places G. C. JS eedham 109 

He Leadetli Us Harry Morehouse -. 96 

Hell L. W. Munhall 58 

Helpful Passages for Different Classes of Seekers Rev. Geo. A Hall 11 

Holiness Charles Cullis 118 

Holy Ghost, The Charles Cullis 145 

Holy Scripture, The W. Hind Smith 75 

Holy Spirit, The Dr. L. W. Munhall 75 

Holy Spirit, The Rev. J. H. Brookes 114 

Holy Spirit, The J. H. Vincent, D. D 132 

Holy Spirit and Ministry, The Rev. A. B. Simpson 35 

Holy Spirit and Sonship, The Rev. W. J. Erdman 35 

Holy Spirit and the Church, The Rev. W. J. Erdman 36 

Holy Spirit in Relation to the Father and the Son, The. . . . Rev. Dr Bishop 36 

Hope Miss Dora Allen 54 

Hope an Anchor to the Soul M. T. S 71 

Hope of the Church, The Rev. Charles M Whittlesey.. 38 

How Goci Remembc rs Us Charles Cullis 117 

How I use the Bible with Christian Workers Rev. J. H. Brookes 20 

How to present the Gospel to the Unsaved D. W. Whittle 38 

How to Study the Bible W. Hind Smith 24 

How to Study the Bible Rev. J. H. Brookes 74 

Indwelling of the Holy Ghost Charles Cullis 147 

In Him Rev. W. M. Taylor, D. D 98 

Influence of the Holy Spirit on the Faculties of Man Rev. W. F. Crafts 77 

Invitations Rev. J. H. Brookes 73 

Invitations Anon I'^l 

Invitations of the Gospel .-. . . . W. F. Sherwin 52 

Jeroboam Rev. T. Bowman Stephenson. 76 

Jesus Christ our Sin-bearer Anon 1% 

Jesus Christ our Saviour Anon 1^5 

Jesus Christ the Source of Peace Anon 124 

Jesus Himself Rev, J. H Brookes 157 

Jesus the Saviour— Hie Life The Watchman 71 

Joy J. W. Dean 158 

Joy in Jesus Charles Cullis 145 

Joy of the Lord Rev M. H. Burger 98 

Joy of the Lord Anon 138 

JuetilicatioD W. H. S 81 

Justification Anon 141 



lNKi:X. 1()7 

TOPIC. AUTHOR. PAGF, 

Kept Charles Cullis 120 

Kingdom of God Anon 155 

King:dom of God— Kingdom of Heaven Anon 129 

Last Judgment, The Rev. J. E. Rice 102 

Law and Grace Rev. J. H. Brookes 72 

Layman's Bible, and How to Use it Ralph Wells 26 

L' t •. Anon 144 

Life in Christ Charles Cullis 14'i 

Life of Faith • Charles Cullis 149 

Life of Faith Charles Cullis 151 

Life of the Believer , Anon 154 

Light in the Cloud Anon 130 

Light of the World, The G. H. Babcock 84 

Living Epistles M. T. S m 

Lord our Helper, T'^e Anon 123 

Lord Our Strengtii, The Anon l-M 

Lost— Saved. Anon 139 

Lovingkindness Anon 148 

Love not the World H. B 152 

Love of Christ, The Rev. J. H. Brookes 112 

Love One Another Anon 155 

Love to the Brethren Anon 75 

Man Cannot Save Himself Thomas Chalmers 125 

Manifestation of Christ to the World by His People Rev. H. M. Parsons 94 

Mail's Excuses for not Obeying God Rev. W. F, Crafts 126 

Man's Way Anon 123 

May we know Now that our Sins are Forgiven ? R. R. McBurney 160 

Measure of the Believer^s Blessings Anon 61 

Me's of Jesus, The Anon 142 

/Message from God The Watchman 96 

Millennial Reign of Christ Rev. H. Johnston 89 

Mind of Christ, The Anon 151 

My Besetting Sin R. R. McBurney 159 

Names gi vtn to Believers Golden Grains 118 

Necessity of C(mversion Anon 142 

Neglected Doctrines of the Bible, No. 1 Rev. H. M. Parsons 92 

Neglected Doctrines of the Bible, No. 2 Rev. H. M. Parsons 92 

New Birth, The Rev. H. Johnston 68 

New Y( ar Thoughts Anon 139 

Now Rev. Chas. M. WhJttlesey . . . . 49 

Offences that cut off the Soul Rev. J. H. Brookes 113 

Old, Old Story, The Am. S. S Worker 8^ 

Oneness with Christ Charles Cullis 148 

Our Peace Charles Cullis 146 

Our Refuge Rev. W. F. Crafts 75- 



168 BIBLE READINGS. 

TOPIC. AUTUOK. PAGE. 

Our State of Nature Anon 124 

Our Words Anon 15.5 

Parents as Teachers Rev. S. B. Schiefflin 151 

Path of Life M. T. S 68 

Paul's Seven Wishes in Philippians Anon 129 

Peace H. B. Chamberlin 114 

Peace , Anon 122 

Peace Anon 154 

Peace : Anon t5() 

Peace Left and Peace Given Rev. W. J. Erdman Ill 

Peace of God, The O. C. Morse 102 

Personality of God Rev. H. M. Parsons 52 

Picture of Salvation Rev. J. H. Brookes Ill 

Political Institutions of the Jews Lyman Abbott, D. D 80 

Power of God^s Word, The Rev. C. M. Whittlesey 91 

Power of God's Word, The Golden Grains 118 

Power of Prayer, The Rev. H. M. Parsons 90 

Praise— Rejoice Anon 120 

Prayer Rev. W. H. Grimes, M. A 76 

Prayer H. B. Chamberlin 86 

Prayer Rev. Hugh Johnston, B. D. . . 88 

Prayer Anon 120 

Prayer Charles Cullis 148 

Prayer Anon 155 

Prayer in Danger Anon 130 

Prayer of Faith Rev, H. M. Parsons 49 

Precious Blood, The. Anon 85 

Precious Things Prof. Wm. Johnson 78 

Precious Things C. E. Dyer 107 

Prodigal Son, The R. H. Gilmore 41 

Purpose of Christ's Sacrifice C. E. Dyer 153 

Qualifications for Christian Workers Rev. C. M. Whittlesey 93 

Questions and Answers Rev. W. M. Peacock 90 

Questions and Hints for Young Christians The Christian 16 

Quietness Charles Cullis 145 

Reading the Bible with Relish Rev. W. F. Crafts 31 

Regeneration Harry Morehouse 95 

Regeneration Anon 141 

Relation of Israel to the Church of the G( ntiles Rev. J. H. Brookes 84 

Relation of the Holy Spirit to us as a Person Rev. H. M. Parsons 158 

Remedies for Spiritual Maladies Anon 129 

Repentance Rev. G. J. Brown 102 

Repentance Anon 138 

Rest Charles Cullis 147 

Rest in God Charles Cullis T... 147 



INDEX. 109 

TOPIC. AUTHOR, PAG B. 

Reat in JesuB Churlea UuUis 117 

Rest iu JesuB Charles CuUis 152 

RestofFaiih Charles Cullis 149 

Resurrection of Christ Hon. H. P. Uaven 1(K3 

Return Anon 156 

Right and Wrong Zeal J. L 108 

Robe of Righteousness M. T. S G5 

Sabbath Observance Thomas Chalmers 135 

Sabbath, The Anon 83 

Saint's Reward, The Grolden Grains 119 

Salvation Rev. H, G. Day 98 

Salvation from God Only Thomas Chalmers 125 

Salvation Through Christ Thomas Chalmers 12u 

Sanctification Rev. W. J. Erdman 131 

Saving Power of Christ Ruth S. Murray 113 

Saying " Yes " to what God says Anon 70 

Scripture of the Apostles' Creed .Rev. W. F. Crafts 76 

Search the Scripture^ Anon 79 

Search the Scriptures Mrs M. C. Hyatt 101 

Second Coming of Christ Rev. Geo. Alexander . . 100 

Second Coming of the Lord. The Miss Sarah F. Smiley 37 

Seek the Lord Geo. H. Babcock 51 

Selling one's Opportunity R. R. McBurney 159 

Seven Allusions to " One Thing " Rev. J. H. Brookes 108 

Seven Characteristic Names of God Rev. Chas. M. Whittlesey 50 

Seven Comes Anon 82 

Seven-Fold Power of Christ Rev. J. H. Brookes 108 

Seven Indispensable Things . Anon 83 

Seven Musts . , ' S. S. B 87 

Seven Reasons for Coming to the Lord 's Supper Rev. J. H. Brookes 86 

Seven Theref ore's of Romans The Watchman 133 

Seven Things about our Walk Rev. J. H. Brookes 59 

Seven Things about Peace Anon 82 

Seven Things Opened J. L. M 127 

Seven Things that Fail Rev. J. H. Brookes 65 

Seven Things the XJcsaved Have Anon 80 

Seven Things to Hold Fast The Watchman 132 

Seven Things to which we Should take Heed Rev. J. H. Brookes 110 

Seven Togethers Anon 138 

Seven Withouts ^ Rev. J. H. Brookes 103 

Should I Forget my Forgiven Sins R. R. McBurney 159 

Sin and Forgiveness Rev. T. G. Darling ... 105 

Six of Christ's Directions Anon 87 

Snare of the Devil M. T. S 6S 

Snow Promise, The M. T. S 6t 



170 BIBLE RHADiNGS. 

TOriC. A(TTHOR. PAGE. 

Solemn Questions Rev J. II. Brookes 57 

SouPs Blindness Cured, The M. T. 8 62 

Sours Debt Paid, The M. T. S t>8 

Sours Well, The ■.. Rev. T. Bowman Stephenson. 89 

Speaking and Working Anon 154 

Spiritual Conflicts J. H. Vincent, D. D 133 

Spiritual Harvest, Tlie M. T. S 69 

Steadfastness... Rev. J. H. Vincent 50 

Steadfastness Anon 124 

Stewardship Rev. H. M. Parsons 49 

Study of the Word Rev. W. J. Erdman 77 

Suggestions for Young Christians Anon 155 

Sunday-School Teacher's Motives Anon 104 

Sunday School Teacher's W\.rk and Reward Anon .• 72 

Sunday-School Worker's Exemplar, The R. H. Gilmore 40 

Teacher's Office and Work, The S. S. Parliament 134 

Temperance Rev. W. M. Peacock 93 

Temperance Allen Folger 154 

Temptation Anon "l23 

Thanksgiving Anon 147 

Thanksgiving and Praise Harry Morehouse 95 

The Spirit of Power and of Love and of a Sound Mind Sarah F. Smiley 38 

Things which God hath Prepared S. A. Blackwood 112 

Things Worth Knowing Rev. J. H. Brookes 157 

Three Aspects of Life Rev. W. M. Peacock 90 

Three Great Facts Anon 88 

Three Worldly Alliances R^ v. W. F. Crafts 58 

Trees of Righteousness M. T. S 63 

True Knowledge Geo. B. Meadows 53 

Trust Anon 121 

Twenty-Third Psalm CD. Choate 54 

Two Ways, or the Contrast .G. W. Cobb 51 

Types of the Holy Ghost Miss Sarah F. Smiley 36 

Very Short and Very Long Times of Blessing 74 

Victory in Christ Charles Cullis 148 

Waiting on God H.B Chamberlin 66 

V/alking in the Light Charles Cullis 144 

Walking Together Charles Cullis 144 

Walking with God The Watchman 109 

Wanted for the Lord's Service Anon 99 

Water of Life M T. S 64 

Way of Holiness Charles Cullis 146 

Way of Salvation, The.. M. C. R 63 

Way of Salvation. The Anon 137 

Way of Salvation, The Allen Folger 154 



INDEX. 171 

TOPIC AtTHOR. PA.'J ^ 

What a Prayer Meeting Slionld Be Rev. W. F. Crafts 7 * 

What Christ has Don - Anon 119 

What Christ is Doiu-- Anon 119 

What Christ will Do Anon 119 

What Christ is for Us The Watchman 134 

What God calls His People to Golden Grains 118 

What God Delivers His People from Golden Grains 118 

What has become of the Christian's Sins Kalph Wells 142 

What is a Christian Anon 86 

What is given to the Believer Anon 143 

What it is to be a Christian R. R. McBnrney 159 

What Jesus is Able to Do — Charles Cullis 117 

What Jesus is Able to Do Anon 137 

What Not to Trust Thomas Chalmers 136 

What Shall I do with Christ? Anon 136 

What the Christian May Be Anon 138 

What the Christian May Be Anon 153 

What the Holy Spirit Does Anon 120 

What to Trust . . Thomas Chalmers 136 

What we Do,by Faith The Watchman 133 

Who are the Blessed J. H. Vincent, D. D 140 

Whosoever Silas Farmer 88 

Whosoever Rev. J. H.Brookes 112 

Wisdom Anon 141 

Witness of the Spirit, The Rev. H. Johnston 68 

Word of God, The , .Rev. Chas. M Whittlesey ... 56 

Word, The R. A Orr 159 

Work Geo. B Bradbury 153 

Work, The Anon 139 

Worker's Commission, The Rev. C. M. Whittlesey 167 

Work of the Holy Ghost, The Golden Grains 118 

World, The Mise Dora Allen 55 

World, The, and How to overcome it R. R. McBuruey 160 

Written Word, The C. H. Schuder 153 

Ye Anon 156 

Yokes, the Two Rev W. F. Crafts 49 



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